Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] old wiretap-0.3.1.dll in Wireshark 1.0.2 win32installer

["Anders Broman" <a.broman@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Ämne: Re: [Wireshark-dev] old wiretap-0.3.1.dll in Wireshark 1.0.2
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On Jul 23, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:

>> Wireshark 1.0.2 is a maintenance release of 1.0.0--it is basically  
>> 1.0.0
>> plus some number of bug fixes (no enhancements and no new  
>> features).  See:
>>
>> http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/ReleaseNumbers
>>
>> for more info.
>>
>> Basically rev 25123 should be in the next non-1.0 release (e.g., 1.2).
Guy Harris wrote:
>
>One person's bug fix is another person's enhancement.
>
>If the extended format trace files are common enough or will be more  
>common in the short term, and if the eyesdn changes aren't too  
>complex, one could perhaps argue that the inability of Wireshark  
>1.0[.x] to read the extended format trace files is a bug.
>
>(A completely *new* trace file format probably doesn't belong in  
>1.0[.x].  An enhancement to an *existing* trace file format to handle  
>new stuff that will show up within the lifetime of 1.0[.x] might  
>belong in 1.0[.x].)
Which brings up the question what is the expected life time of 1.0[.x]?
and should some (limited) enhancements go in to it?
Regards
Anders
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