Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark 1.4 & Cmake status

From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 16:36:46 +0200
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:11:54AM -0400, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> > Well, most of the elementary stuff builds and installs on my system but
> > I don't regard it being release quality:
> > - The lua-plugin doesn't build (it did at some point in time, but later
> >   code changes broke this and I failed to fix it within a 2 hour timeframe.
> > - It should work on current Linux systems
> > - At least GTK2, GLIB2 and Kerberos detection need more work.
> > - Install works, but packaging (deb, rpm, ...) and source packaging don't.
> > - The docbook stuff is horrible and needs to be (at least partially) redone.
> > - Non-Linux Unix'ish OSses might or might not work - tests and reports
> >   always welcome.
> > - Windows is out of the scope of what *I* can support right now, as I lack
> >   Windows, a build-environment and the knowledge for it.
> > 
> > That said, compiling and installing *should* work and if it doesn't I'm
> > interested in bugreports!
> 
> Should we ship all the Cmake stuff in the tarballs so more people can 
> play with it (e.g., those without SVN access), even if it's not "release 
> quality?"

>From my point of view: Sure  :-)

ciao
    Joerg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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