Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Next step in build process cleanup

[Ed Warnicke <hagbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At one point a couple of years ago I had epan within a rewrite of the
prefs of being independent.  I could compile independently, and there were
only two unresolved symbols in the resulting library remaining.  I'm 
sure it's
drifted since then.  The point is that while it's a fair bit more work with
epan ( as opposed to wiretap, which was independent last I checked ), it can
be done, and at one point almost was.

Ed
Joerg Mayer wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:36:52PM -0500, Ed Warnicke wrote:
>  
>
> >   I'd rather that
> > A) Collapse configure and epan/configure into one (and maybe
> >       wiretap/configure)
> > not occur for the following reason:
> > I'd like to see epan and wiretap independently distributable at some
> > point so that they can be used by applications other than
> > ethereal and tethereal.  I suspect there are others here who share
> > similar ambitions.  Collapsing epan/configure and wiretap/configure
> > into configure moves us further from this goal.
> >    
>
> While I expected that argument for wiretap :) I don't really see this
> happening with epan: I think the api would change too often - but maybe
> I'm wrong. Actually A) should be done after B), if at all: It makes the
> properties of a libepan (or whatever name) much clearer.
>
> Ciao
>             Jörg
>
> --
> Joerg Mayer                                            <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
> We are stuck with technology when what we really want ist just stuff that
> works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
>
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