Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] H235 & ASN1 compiler

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 13:47:09 -0700 (PDT)
Ronnie Sahlberg said:
> From: "Guy Harris"
>> BTW, is that why the generated source was checked in - so that people
>> don't need to upgrade Python in order to build from CVS?
>
> that is one reason,
> another reason,  we dont require python at all for any other things

We require it for generating "packet-ncp2222.c", which is *not* checked
into CVS, so we *do* require Python for building Ethereal from CVS.

We distribute "packet-ncp2222.c" with released source tarballs, so Python
*isn't* required for building from a release's source tarball.