Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Date in Tethereal?

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From: Mark Atwood <mra@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 31 Oct 2000 15:10:47 -0800
Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > Now that somebody (Mark) is fiddling around with time display issues in
> > Tethereal,
> 
> If you're refering to Mark Atwood's mail, that mail doesn't indicate
> that he's working on any Tethereal-specific issues, nor that he's
> working on any existing display code, it suggests that he's working on a
> new dissector.

That would be correct.
> 
> It would, however, be unwise to assume that this will necessarily be
> implemented quickly (nobody's working full-time on Ethereal, so a
> request for that feature will get thrown into the same pile as all the
> other feature requests, and implemented when one of the developers gets
> around to it; the developer base seems to be growing more slowly than
> the user base, which means the pile in question will probably, over
> time, have stuff added to it faster than stuff is removed from it by
> being implemented).

Which is unfortunate, as Ethereal is better than any other software
only packet analyzer I've ever used.


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