On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 07:28:38AM +0200, Gabriel, Akos /ECF wrote:
> Btw. if you are interested, I may create an appropriate package for Solaris
> 2.6 SPARC (that is installed at our site right now), as I saw that Solaris
> is missing from the supported binary distributions.
Well, there is a SPARC/Solaris 8 package of Ethereal 0.8.4 on
sunfreeware.com - the binary distributions list was recently updated to
mention that - but that's the only binary package I could find.
You might want to talk with the sunfreeware.org people about supplying
them with a SPARC/Solaris 2.6 package of a more recent version.
> - I can't use CVS because of our firewall...
Unfortunately, many other people have the same problem...
> Is there something like a nightly
> build, or would it be possible to receive a tarball regularly?
...and, as a result, Gerald recently started producing nightly source
tarballs and putting them on the Web site; see
http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/nightly-builds/
(Gerald, you might want to put a link to that directory on the
"Download" page, near the
For the daring, the latest development sources are available via
anonymous CVS.
note, e.g.
For the daring, the latest development sources are available via
anonymous CVS, or, for those who can't use anonymous CVS because
of firewall problems and the like, nightly tarballs are also
available.
> - Is there any control of "who does what?"
There's no central control; there are areas of the source that have
somebody who does most of the work on them (e.g., Richard Sharpe does
most of the SMB work), but that doesn't mean nobody else is allowed to
work on them.
> ... I have some ideas which seem not to be in the recently available source
> tree, but may be under development... and I don't want to do the same twice
You should probably send your list of ideas to "ethereal-dev", and see
if anybody else is working on them (or even just has some ideas about
how to do them).
> - I saw the wish-list ... does anybody implementing items 10,
Some graphing code was sent to the list a while ago; I'm not sure whether it
was sent in as "well, here's my first cut, what do you think?" or "here,
it's done" - I can go dig it up and see.
> 11,
Nobody's done that yet. I'm not sure whose idea that was; if it was
mine, it was inspired by Microsoft Network Monitor, where Edit->Copy, if
the summary pane is active, copies to the clipboard text that
corresponds to what you'd get if you printed to a file the selected
packet, with all levels of the protocol tree expanded, and with the
summary line prepended, and, if the detail pane is active, copies to the
clipboard the text of the selected line.
> 18 and 19 ?
Nobody's done that yet.
