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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] U3 questions/remarks

From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 19:39:33 +0100
Graeme Lunt wrote:
Ufl,
Idea: If you use different GUID's, should we add the SVN version into the GUID somehow to do this automatically?
I have been doing it "by hand" and checking a change in at each version
change so far.
But it is probably time for an automatic approach. I'll see what's available
for creating name-based GUIDs - or write something. Does Wireshark already
have an allocated GUID (which I could re-use for the namespace)?
I don't think that we have a WS specific GUID somewhere. What do you mean by "name-based GUIDs"?

Buidling parts of the GUID from the current SVN version might be the way to go - names don't fit well into GUID's ;-).
Where does it come up as a tooltip? I'm using the U3 Launchpad (1.1.0.2) from my Toshiba stick and it doesn't show up a tooltip in the launchpad at all :-(

A tooltip comes up when I hover over the application name in the launchpad
window.
I'm running 1.2.0.5 on a Sandisk U3 device. The launchpads are slightly
different between vendors as well which doesn't help - see
http://wiki.wireshark.org/U3Packaging for what the Sandisk launchpad looks
like.
Yes, it looks a bit different.

Looking at that Wiki page, you (or someone else?) have added the U3 logo and some screenshots. Did you read the License page of the Wiki (GPL)? Are you really legally allowed to release the U3 logo under the GPL term? If you are allowed (e.g. granted from a U3 LLC license) it should be noted on that wiki page - if not it should be removed. It's not about to annoy you, but to prevent you/us from any legal problems.
Maybe I'll need an upgrade for the U3 Launchpad?
It is worthwhile doing - you can do it from the Launchpad (or at least you
can on my Sandisk launchpad!).
Unfortunately, the update function of my Toshiba U3 stick doesn't provide any new version :-(
I was thinking exactly about this myself :-) We install the winpcap installer in "Program Files" already, so it should be possible to add this without much extra work.
That will simplify the U3 interface too as it won't have to ask on the first

start of the application. There will have to be a little bit of U3-specific code - i.e. mark the
WinPcap as being installed by the U3 device, so it can uninstalled when the
U3 device is removed - but that is fairly trivial.
Ack.

Regards, ULFL