[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 10:46:37AM +1100, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> What benefits would it have from a practical standpoint to have a shared
> library for ethereal?
> A lot of work but never any explanation on why we need it and what benefits
> it will provide.

Short term:
- much smaller executables:
  jmayer@madhatter:/usr/local/bin> ll ethereal tethereal dftest randpkt mergecap editcap
  -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      8909055 2004-02-29 20:31 dftest*
  -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       158200 2004-02-29 20:31 editcap*
  -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      9790923 2004-02-29 20:31 ethereal*
  -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       157885 2004-02-29 20:31 mergecap*
  -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       158864 2004-02-29 20:31 randpkt*
  -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      9150591 2004-02-29 20:31 tethereal*
 currently, knoppix only includes ethereal due to space reasons. That would
 be gone with shared libs.
- Less linking time (I'm still doing most of my work on a 128 MB machine)

Medium/Long term:
- cleaner code structure/API
- easier to use by other projects (think Packetyzer, NOT ClearSight)

 Ciao
    Jï¿œrg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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