Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11683] extcap: Name and version should be listed in About
Comment # 2
on bug 11683
from Roland Knall
(In reply to Stig Bjørlykke from comment #0)
> Build Information:
> Paste the COMPLETE build information from "Help->About Wireshark",
> "wireshark -v", or "tshark -v".
> --
> All extcap binaries available for the user should be listed with version
> number and type "extcap" in About -> Plugins.
I concurr. This seems to be a neat idea. Additionally, as I am currently
shifting through the mess that is g_spawn, do you think it would be a good
idea, to provide settings for individual interfaces?
Let me clarify, right now an interface is provided like this:
interface {value=example1}{display=Example interface usage for extcap}
I am thinking of adopting it to something like
interface {value=example1}{display=Example interface usage for
extcap}{fifostderr=--stderr-fifo}{versionquery=--version}
In the above example, the utility could tell the engine to provide a fifo for
stderr with the utility parameter --stderr-fifo as well as question the version
with --version. g_spawn is seriously broken on Windows, and I am thinking of
ways to fix it, which are compatible with existing extcap interfaces but also
would provide a more useful method for future ones. And all basically stops
with the question on how to setup the utilities properly. Additional parameters
are quite easy to implement, and not really mandatory by utilites.
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