Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark 1.4 & Cmake status

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 03:00:35AM +0100, Jose Pedro Oliveira wrote:
> > Will we be able to build Wireshark 1.4 using Cmake from its
> > source tarball? I'm asking this because the CMake files
> > are available in the svn trunk but are not being shipped in
> > the current developer [1] or buildbot [2] tarballs.
>
> Well, most of the elementary stuff builds and installs on my system but
> I don't regard it being release quality:
> - The lua-plugin doesn't build (it did at some point in time, but later
>   code changes broke this and I failed to fix it within a 2 hour timeframe.
> - It should work on current Linux systems
> - At least GTK2, GLIB2 and Kerberos detection need more work.
> - Install works, but packaging (deb, rpm, ...) and source packaging don't.
> - The docbook stuff is horrible and needs to be (at least partially) redone.
> - Non-Linux Unix'ish OSses might or might not work - tests and reports
>   always welcome.
> - Windows is out of the scope of what *I* can support right now, as I lack
>   Windows, a build-environment and the knowledge for it.
>
> That said, compiling and installing *should* work and if it doesn't I'm
> interested in bugreports!

Should we ship all the Cmake stuff in the tarballs so more people can 
play with it (e.g., those without SVN access), even if it's not "release 
quality?"