Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal 10.0 download size

[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Hecox wrote:
> I just downloaded 10.10 version for windows. I noticed the file size is
> considerably smaller then previous versions. Have some features
> been removed?

Prior to the 0.10.4 release, all of the dissector code in Ethereal and
Tethereal was statically linked to each executable.  The 0.10.4 and
later installers uses a shared DLL for dissection (except for 0.10.5 --
it was inadvertently built statically).  Since the dissectors make up
the vast majority of Ethereal, the installer size shrunk considerably.
At around the same time the version of NSIS used for packaging was
upgraded to 2.0, which uses a better compression algorithm.