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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] misleading description on Wireshark Download page

From: Balint Reczey <balint.reczey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 20:41:49 +0100
On 11/02/2011 08:19 PM, Alexis La Goutte wrote:



On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    Excellent question. We were holding off on making a development release
    over the summer until the multi-interface capture support settled down.
    Is there any reason to delay 1.7.0 at this point?

    On 11/2/11 12:51 AM, Dirk Jagdmann wrote:
     > So today somebody at my company wanted to check the latest
    Wireshark. Looking at http://www.wireshark.org/download.html he read
    the description literally which said that the 1.6.0rc2 is the latest
    development release. So he figured it might be newer than the fresh
    1.6.3 release...
     >
     > I think we can remove that old release candidate, or
    alternatively put a daily/weekly tarball of trunk on that page.
     >

  Hi,

Why not release a new dev release (based on trunk) to each new release
of 1.6.x/1.4.x ?
Why should we? The svn repository is public.

Cheers,
Balint