Ethereal-users: Re: R: [ethereal-users] I very need help about using of packet.dll under Delphi

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From: "John J. LeMay Jr." <jlemay@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 14:52:25 -0400
** Reply to message from "Loris Degioanni" <loris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on
Mon, 4 Sep 2000 15:16:21 +0200


> We are thinking, from next release, to distribute libpcap as a dll. This, among other advantages, will allow the many non-VisualC programmers to use winpcap easily (we had many requests to support Delphi, VB, Cbuilder, etc.). Moreover, this will make applications independent from the upgrades of winpcap/libpcap.
> Do you think that this will have any drawbacks?
> 
> Loris.
> 


Coming from a support background (as opposed to a programming background), this
sounds logical. I assume this means that one with a bit of VB experience would
be able to access features in the dll without having to master VisC. Wouldn't
this also make updates simpler? One could update to a newer libpcap dll without
needed to download (and possibly compile) an entire new rev of the application.
Modular is almost always good!

John LeMay Jr.
Senior Enterprise Consultant
NJMC, LLC.

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