Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 38782: /trunk/gtk/ /trunk/gtk/: main
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:49:08 -0700
On Aug 29, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote:

> Adding back to #ifdef HAVE_LIBPCAP is not the nicest way. We have way too
> many places with #ifdef somethingorother. IIRC the intention of the patch
> that caused the problem was to always have all features in the menu, some
> of them just not visible/selectable(?).

I would vote for "not visible".

I would also vote for not even having a "Capture" menu if we don't have *pcap.  On Windows, that means deciding at run time whether to have a "Capture" menu item, depending on whether we have WinPcap installed, so we might as well do it at run time on UN*X as well.