Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Current issues with MSVC build processandlibethereal
FAIR ENOUGH.
(i accindetally pressed caps lock but it looks so cool and reminds me of
discworld so ill let it remain all caps)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joerg Mayer"
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Current issues with MSVC build
processandlibethereal
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 10:46:37AM +1100, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> > What benefits would it have from a practical standpoint to have a shared
> > library for ethereal?
> > A lot of work but never any explanation on why we need it and what
benefits
> > it will provide.
>
> Short term:
> - much smaller executables:
> jmayer@madhatter:/usr/local/bin> ll ethereal tethereal dftest randpkt
mergecap editcap
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8909055 2004-02-29 20:31 dftest*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158200 2004-02-29 20:31 editcap*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9790923 2004-02-29 20:31 ethereal*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 157885 2004-02-29 20:31 mergecap*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158864 2004-02-29 20:31 randpkt*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9150591 2004-02-29 20:31 tethereal*
> currently, knoppix only includes ethereal due to space reasons. That
would
> be gone with shared libs.
> - Less linking time (I'm still doing most of my work on a 128 MB machine)
>
> Medium/Long term:
> - cleaner code structure/API
> - easier to use by other projects (think Packetyzer, NOT ClearSight)
>
> Ciao
> Jörg
> --
> Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
> works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
>
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