On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:10:47PM -0800, Mark Atwood wrote:
> > the developer base seems to be growing more slowly than
> > the user base, which means the pile in question will probably, over
> > time, have stuff added to it faster than stuff is removed from it by
> > being implemented).
>
> Which is unfortunate, as Ethereal is better than any other software
> only packet analyzer I've ever used.
Well, the best way for users who are also C programmers to help that
situation would be for them to dive in and start hacking....
See
http://www.ethereal.com/development.html
If you want to work with the latest shiniest version of the source, that
page tells you how to get anonymous read-only access to the CVS tree.
If you're going to do that, you'll need the tools it lists there; you
will also need Python, and will also need GNU "make" on UNIX.
You can also work on the source tree from
http://www.ethereal.com/download.html#sources
which - *if* you don't modify any of the files that are processed by
Python or Flex or Bison - means you may not need as many tools. You
also won't need automake/autoconf if you don't add any files (but if you
*do* add files such as a dissector, you'll need it unless you edit the
auto-generated Makefiles by hand).
