Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [ANNOUNCE] WinPcap 3.2 alpha1 has been released

[Loris Degioanni <loris.degioanni@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf, you are probably right.
Essentially, the 64-bit porting adds a new, separate driver to the 
WinPcap set. This correctly means that the impact on previously 
supported OSes is minimal, but a driver in an early development stage, 
even being very careful during the development and testing phases, is 
quite a big risk for the stability of a machine.

This alpha is out so we can collect feedback and, if needed, fix things. 
But I would probably wait for a beta before including it in an Ethereal 
release.

Loris


Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Joerg Mayer wrote:
>
> > (Mostly to) Gianluca.
> >  
> Well, I might respond anyway :-)
>
> > Would it make sense to update the Ethereal installer to this version? 
> > That way
> > you'd get a bigger crowd of alphatesters, and if I understood your mail
> > correctly, 32-bit users shouldn't be affected.
> >  
> That sounds like a very early release.
>
> I personally don't like to have early alpha release into the 
> "production" installer of Ethereal (there are always problems that you 
> don't even think about).
>
> We do (and unfortunately already) have to many bugs IMHO. We should 
> avoid adding new bugs by using unstable libs (like we don't use GTK2.8 
> for the Win32 release for now).
>
> However, what we *should* do is to let our users know that this lib is 
> available (e.g. mention it in the wiki and at questions at the mailing 
> lists), so our users can check it out if they need to.
>
> Regards, ULFL
>
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