Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 51118: /trunk/epan/ /trunk/epan/: addr_resolv.c

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

On 08/02/2013 08:50 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> On 08/02/2013 08:48 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 05:17:33PM -0700, Gerald Combs wrote:
> > > On 8/2/13 5:08 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 02:53:13PM +0000, etxrab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > > http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=51118
> > > > >
> > > > > User: etxrab
> > > > > Date: 2013/08/02 07:53 AM
> > > > >
> > > > > Log:
> > > > >   g_int64_hash() and g_int64_equal() first appear in GLib 2.22,
> > > > > make a local copy.
> > > > >
> > > > > Directory: /trunk/epan/
> > > > >    Changes    Path             Action
> > > > >    +45 -0     addr_resolv.c    Modified
> > > >
> > > > How about requiring a newer version of glib for HEAD instead?
> > >
> > > GLib 2.22 was released in September 2009, so 2.22 or later might be a
> > > reasonable expectation by the time we make the next major release. If we
> > > do make 2.22 the minimum version we can remove the same check + code
> > > from packet-infiniband.c.
> >
> > Or even 2.24, which is what Debian old stable provides.
>
> If we do 2.24 we lose support RHEL/CentOS 6:
>
> https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201305/msg00028.html
>
> For that reason I'd vote for 2.22 instead.

FWIW I created a page on the wiki to track Glib and Gtk versions and the 
OS distributions they came in:

http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Glib_Gtk_version_tracking

I only put Redhat-based systems in there because that's all I really know.