Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Vote for removal of some User Guide sections

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jaap Keuter wrote:

> I see what you mean. There are three audiences to please: the binary
> package user, the released sources user and the developer. Now with only
> two manuals how are we going to target these audiences? Is the release
> sources user more like the binary package user or the developer? I say
> (s)he's more like a developer.

I'm not certain that's always the case.  For users on many OSes on PC's 
(Windows, Linux, free-software BSDs), binary packages might be 
available; however, for some less-favored OSes, and for various 
free-software OSes when run on non-x86-PC platforms, binary packages 
might not be available.  Even when they are available, the latest 
version might not be available as a binary package.

As such, end users might have to build Ethereal from source, even if 
they have no interest in modifying Ethereal.