Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] should extcap dir be a preference?

[Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Pascal Quantin
<pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> M
> Le 26 août 2014 15:59, "Martin Kaiser" <lists@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> at the moment, the directory for the extcap binaries is defined at
>> compile time.
>>
>> When I first tried extcap a year ago, I created a patch to make the
>> extcap directory a preference. This was much easier for me to handle
>> when I played with several extcaps that needed frequent recompiling.
>>
>> I'd like to resurrect this patch. Thoughts?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Martin
+1 too

>
> +1. I was thinking about adding a location in the profile folder (like for
> plugins) but making it configurable might be even better.

It not already in About window ?
>
> Pascal.
>
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