Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] changes between wireshark 0.99.6a and wireshark 0.99.7
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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:44:41 -0800
Jeff Morriss wrote:
> 
> A Verma wrote:
>>  
>> Hi
>> How to. find out what all changes were made to which all files between 
>> wireshark 0.99.6a and wireshark 0.99.7 versions ?
>> I am interested in the plugings code specifically.
> 
> Download the 0.99.6a source.
> Download the 0.99.7 source.
> Unpack/untar them both.
> diff -r wirshark-0.99.6a wireshark-0.99.7
> 
> (Hint: there will be a lot of changes.)
> 
> The last command there is a UNIX command, there may be some function 
> that does something similar in Windows but I wouldn't have a clue what 
> it is.

A pre-made patch is available at
http://www.wireshark.org/download/src/all-versions/patch-wireshark-0.99.6-to-0.99.7.diff.bz2.
As Jeff points out, there are a lot of changes -- 852,000 lines worth.