Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] MSVC build broken(Print.c changes) Patch

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:

> So why is "print.c" part of libethereal?  Dissectors don't use it.
>
> (If the answer is "because libethereal isn't just stuff that dissectors
> would use, it's all stuff used both by Tethereal and Ethereal", should
> there be a single library of stuff shared by Tethereal and Ethereal, or
> should there be a library for dissection, which could be used by
> applications using the dissectors but that don't, for whatever reason,
> want to use the rest of the code that's currently in libethereal, and
> another library for stuff that's not dissector-related but that's shared
> by Ethereal and Tethereal?)
>
>  
Well, it sounds to me, that you've answered the question yourself.

I would agree, having two libraries is the right thing to do here.

Regards, ULFL