Hi List!
As previously announced and becoming a topic more and more at least for
the win32 port.
With the installation process for the installer I've currently changed,
you will have the opportunity to use the GTK1 or GTK2 version, but not both.
The reason for this is e.g. that the name "ethereal.exe" is used for
both GTK versions 1 and 2, but there are other topics as well.
When installing to the same dir, I'm not sure if we will have DLL
conflicts. Currently this seems no problem, but this might be a problem
in the future?
We have some options for a GTK2 installer:
1) put both GTK versions of Ethereal into the installer and simply
install them in parallel
2) build completely different GTK1 and 2 installer versions and install
them in different dirs
to 1) questions:
a) the installler will be much bigger, is this ok? It has to include
both exe's and all different DLL's in parallel,
already about 13-14MB this will increase it by 4-5MB as an approx.
b) as all files in same dir, might getting problems in future versions
with DLLs with same names but different versions
c) how should the links / icons should be for both versions?
to 2) questions:
a) how to name the different versions? Has this to be reflected in the
Ethereal main version? E.g. Ethereal2.exe or Ethereal_gtk2.exe?
b) Same applies to the dir name to install into /registry keys and such.
We could improve problem in 1)a) by seperating dissection and GUI
things. This would also reduce the size of the current installer also a lot.
Currently the Ethereal and Tethereal exe's are statically linked,
although the dissection code is the same.
This will also apply on all other platforms as well?
I would tend to option 2), as this would make a clear distinguish
between the two versions. But this should be reflected in the main
Ethereal version too IMHO.
Any comments?
Regards, ULFL
