Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal for Mac OS X

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:13:10 -0800
Diganta Saha wrote:
Will you be able to have a Ethereal version that a downloadable binary from your website as a *.dmg or OS X bundled application without using Fink or DarwinPort?

If somebody contributes

	1) a Mac (or enough money for a Mac) for the build farm

and

2) a set of instructions for packaging up Ethereal *AND ALL THE LIBRARIES IT NEEDS FROM GLib and GTK+* into an OS X package

to us, we would probably be able to do that. (If somebody contributes to us the latter, somebody else might contribute the former.)

Note that the package includes a command-line application (Tethereal), so the package would probably have to be built with GLib, at least, and all the plugins and files that come with Ethereal installed in a standard place such as /usr/local/lib (although that might run the risk of overwriting one the user has already installed).

Note also the the resulting Ethereal would still require X11.