John R. wrote:
Some more FAQs for the Wireshark FAQ:
"1) Why did you fork Ethereal?"
as in, do you have a broad vision for improvements to the core of
ethereal that you couldn't manage otherwise? Was it just to change the
name? etc.
It seems (to ignorant me) that it must be more than just a name change
since everything was _copied_ from Ethereal to Wireshark. That seems to
me to be a lot more work than a global search-n-replace from Ethereal to
Wireshark. Though maybe there were infrastructure reasons for that? It
does seem odd, though, to leave Ethereal out there with--presumably--no
one left who can/will check in changes to it.
(Of course because it was a copy, now all of us need to subscribe to all
the new mailing lists, get a new login for the new bug tracker, and
probably a few more things; at least it looks like switching SVNs will
be relatively painless.)
BTW, should the NEWS on ethereal.com be updated with this announcement?
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