Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Tool Ownership and Licensing

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 02:34:26PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
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> On Sep 13, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > We have the following tools in our source tree without appropriate
> > license headers,
> 
> There's also tools/make-dissector-reg.py, which was written by Gilbert Ramirez:
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> 	r2873 | gram | 2001-01-10 23:21:35 -0800 (Wed, 10 Jan 2001) | 8 lines
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> 	Add a python script which has the same functionality as the shell
> 	script 'make-reg-dotc'. It is used only in the Win32 build because the
> 	make-reg-dotc shell script is *so* sloooooooooow on Win32, due to the
> 	multiple processes (grep, grep, sed) launched multiple times for each
> 	source file. By putting all the text-mangling logic into a single Python
> 	script, only one process is launched, and the source files are read
> 	only once. It's *a lot* faster... seconds instead of minutes.

If I understand things for windows builds correctly, we require python for
windows builds as well nowadays. If that's correct we should get rid of the
shell script.

Ciao
      Jörg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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