Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Get_cpu_info on platforms other than Windows?

[Kurt Knochner <ws.dev.list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2013-02-06 22:52, Guy Harris wrote:
> 	2) it's easier to get them to open About -> Wireshark than to figure
> up whatever tool is appropriate on their particular OS or to 
> otherwise
> get the CPU information.

right, but why build that into wireshark with all "hassles" of 
interoperability?

> However, there's other information that might be useful, such as bus
> speeds, memory speeds, etc.; I doubt we want to gather a ton of
> information about that.

why not have a 'portable' script (perl, python, lua) that scans the OS 
for
different available system tools, gathers the data and reports back 
whatever
it finds (lsb_release -a, uname -xyz, cat /proc/cpu, systctl -a, etc.). 
Windows
however, would need some special treatment, but adjusting a script 
should be
easier than adding the same functionality to the Wireshark code.

And asking the user to run 'crash_report.py' from the install directory
should be no problem, as the user has an interest in getting the 
problem
fixed.

Just a few thoughts ....

Regards
Kurt