Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Next step in build process cleanup

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:36:52PM -0500, Ed Warnicke wrote:
>    I'd rather that
> A) Collapse configure and epan/configure into one (and maybe
>        wiretap/configure)
> not occur for the following reason:
> I'd like to see epan and wiretap independently distributable at some
> point so that they can be used by applications other than
> ethereal and tethereal.  I suspect there are others here who share
> similar ambitions.  Collapsing epan/configure and wiretap/configure
> into configure moves us further from this goal.

While I expected that argument for wiretap :) I don't really see this
happening with epan: I think the api would change too often - but maybe
I'm wrong. Actually A) should be done after B), if at all: It makes the
properties of a libepan (or whatever name) much clearer.

 Ciao
             Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                            <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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