Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Plan for next release

[Ed Warnicke <hagbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Comments inline....

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:

> I'm planning on releasing 0.8.15 this week, unless someone has some
> changes which would make me wait until later.

Hurray!!!

> 
> I'm still working on adding Ed's drange stuff. After trying to
> get it to work with FT_ETHER, I saw how ugly the dfilter/type
> stuff was, and decided to do the right thing and fix a lot of stuff.
> I was already re-working the type system, but decided to 
> re-working a lot of the dfilter stuff too. I am fully moving
> the type system (FT_* types) to a separate module. The proto_tree
> code and the dfilter code both depend on this type system.
> 
> But my changes probably won't be done this week, and even if they
> were, I'd rather have them "soak" in CVS for a while before
> releasing Ethereal. That's why I'll wait until after the next
> release to commit all my changes.

Ah...  some disapointment.  I am happy to see the general improvements in
terms of the typing system being pulled out into its own module and the
cleanup of the dfilter code and the addition of dranges to FT_FILTER, but I 
had been hoping that the dranges stuff would make it into the next release...

However, it should be noted that I am in complete agreement that both 
the dranges stuff and the rest of the cleanup you are proposing should be
allowed to cook in CVS for a while prior to release and thus if we are 
planning a release this week I agree with holding back both of them.  

Ed