Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Google Summer of Code 2013
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From: Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:37:13 +0100
2013/2/15 Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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> On Feb 14, 2013, at 9:09 PM, Hadriel Kaplan <HKaplan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Provide a way for Wireshark to automatically check-for and optionally auto-retrieve the most recent version from wireshark's site/mirrors,
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> For which operating systems?
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> The only ones for which the Wireshark project provides binaries are Windows and OS X.  ("Linux" is an unlikely target, unless there's a way to make Linux binaries that work on multiple different distributions.)
And also pointless, since every modern distribution have apt-get or
yum or something similar.

I would be really surprised if Google sponsored helping MSFT or AAPL
to improve the maintainability of their system. :-)

Cheers,
Balint