On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 01:14:37PM -0400, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:
> Since PCRE is "optional" in the dev docs, does that mean I can't
> safely assume it's available in wireshark builds?
Yes, however, we recently started using GLib's GRegex functionality in
place of PCRE when running a high-enough GLib version. It's in GLib
2.14 and higher:
http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Perl-compatible-regular-expressions.html
You can block out your wiretap code to only work when compiled with GLib
2.14 (which is most people, including all of the automated builds that
people download) by using:
#if GLIB_CHECK_VERSION(2,14,0)
...
#endif
I don't see a problem with blocking out all of the new code, so that
file format simply isn't available without GLib > 2.14. That's how we
usually handle new features (we don't show it unavailable in the GUI -
it just doesn't show up at all).
