[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 6, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote:

> the patch below turns libwiretap and libethereal into shared libs.
> I'd like to see some testing on more than my system before I submit it.

Let me (or somebody) test it on, at minimum, Mac OS X *and* Solaris 
first, so that we know that it's

	1) not dependent on systems using ELF;

	2) not dependent on GNU ld.

> Things I'd like to get feedback on too:
> Should I make dfilter into a shared lib too?

Should the dfilter stuff be a separate library, or should it be 
considered part of libethereal?

> Should wiretap remain a static lib?

It's not static on Windows - is there any reason to keep it static on 
UN*X?

Note that version numbers should be maintained as per the usual rules, 
i.e. the major version number should change whenever a change is made 
that breaks binary compatibility with programs built with the older 
library.