Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Ethereal Use/Crash

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From: Mike Frisch <mfrisch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:23:54 -0400
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:19:54PM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> There is a native Windows gui under development (packetizer), please search
> the mailinglist  archive for details. One thing that you could try would be

As I understood, this is an application that's based on Ethereal.  It is
not Ethereal itself, so it doesn't follow the Ethereal source base.

> current CVS and gtk2 (IIRC there is a windows port of that). Please note
> that ethereal + gtk2 + windows hasn't been tested yet (at least there haven't
> been any reports about that so far - and no nmakefile patches either).

I have pondered working on a native Win32 UI for Ethereal, however I
just don't have the spare time to do so.  We had a lengthy discussion on
this mailing-list several months ago with regard to what is required to
support native UIs.  It's not a trivial task, however I think it would
be worthwhile.

In doing development on several dissectors, I have found the Win32 port
of Gtk to be a little buggy sometimes to the point of being unusable.
At our office, most people who were running the Win32 version of
Ethereal are now running the Linux version for this reason.