Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] 2.6 branch planning and post-branch changes

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14 March 2018 at 20:41, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I plan on releasing 2.5.1 tomorrow and I've tentatively scheduled creating the 2.6 branch on April 2, followed by 2.6.0 on April 18.

As discussed previously we'll drop support for Qt 4 and GTK+ in the master branch after master-2.6 is created. Unless there are strong objections I'd like to bump the minimum GLib version to 2.32.

Should we remove GTK+ options from the Windows (and macOS?) installers for 2.6, considering we haven't built that version for a while?

I'd also like your opinion on doing the following:

Deprecating or removing Autotools. We'd need generate source tarballs using another method, e.g. tools/git-export-release.sh.

Shipping the Windows installers with Npcap.

+1 as an option, I don't think we can drop WinPcap until the npcap distribution issues have been sorted out.  The build should also allow configuration such that npcap isn't used\included, again because of the distribution issues.

 

Renaming protocols to match current reality, e.g. "bootp" to "dhcp" and "ssl" to "tls".

 

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Graham Bloice