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

["Jaap Keuter" <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Right Sake, I think Gerald has everything lined up (including a proper logo
graphic) and he's just waiting for the right moment to blast 1.1.0 out the
door.

Thanx,
Jaap 

-----Original Message-----
From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sake Blok
Sent: 2008-Jul-24 07:21
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] old wiretap-0.3.1.dll in Wireshark
1.0.2win32installer

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 02:22:33AM +0200, Anders Broman wrote:
> 
> 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?

If the life time of the 1.0[.x] release is quite long, which I think it
should, then building 1.1.x "feature" releases might be a good thing to
provide enhancements to the user community in an official way (just like the
releases pre-1.0).

Which would give the following versions:

1.[even].x      Maintenance releases (STABLE)
1.[odd].x       Feature releases
1.[odd].x-SVN#  Automated development builds

Maybe the download statistics will show a turnover point between downloading
the maintenace releases and the deature releases, which show it's time for
the next maintenance release to come out.

I thought this was the original plan, because otherwise there is no need to
stick to 1.[even].x releases since the 1.[odd].x releases will not be used.

Cheers,
    Sake
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