On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 06:41:44PM -0500, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> On 12/03/2010 06:30 PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> > Does libwsutil need to be its own library that is installed (on Unix)
> > alongside libwireshark and libwiretap?
>
> I think it's useful: it gives us a place that is neither wiretap nor
> libwireshark to stick basic utility-type or otherwise shared code.
>
> Making it a shared library that is installed separately just means we
> don't have 6 (or however many) copies of the code in each executable.
>
> Why?
I was just curious. I rarely install Wireshark on machines I do
development on (I run it from the build directory), so when I installed
it for a change that the little ~22k libwsutil.so.0 was installed :). I
was thinking of it from more of a "do any non-Wireshark programs really
need the wsutil shared library out there?" perspective compared to
libwireshark that I know other programs utilize and libwiretap that is
possibly used by other programs as well. Thanks.