Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] external plugin and exported symbols

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Anders wrote:

> Why not use them *only* on those systems where we don't find a proper 
> GNU TLS or libgcrypt installed?

That was what I had in mind.

If, however, we only use a small fraction of the code in the libraries, 
we might want to copy the code (and perhaps tailor it to Ethereal - 
Ethereal isn't an application using SSL/TLS, it's just an application 
that needs to handle SSL/TLS encryption (it doesn't need an SSL/TLS 
library to parse SSL/TLS traffic, it already has a dissector to do 
that), just as, for example, it isn't an application using SNMP, it just 
needs to handle SNMP MIB files (it doesn't need an SNMP library to parse 
SNMP traffic, it already has a dissector to do that).