Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Wiretap as a separate library

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:15:57 -0600
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 06:44:46PM -0600, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was thinking that other projects may want to have access to wiretap as a
> separate library.
> 
> Would it be hard to separate out and provide it as a library.

No, not hard. That's why wiretap has it's own autoconf stuff, unlike
the gtk directory which has just automake stuff.  Right now only
an archive library is produced, in the future a shared library might
be more convenient. Or, since we now have editcap and tethereal, perhaps
now is a good time for a shared library.
 
> I know that Chris Hertel who is doing jCIFS asked about writing tcpdump
> files recently, and I figure all of that would be easier if there was this
> separate library called libwtap ...

--gilbert