Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] movement of source files from the top-level directory

From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 08:43:08 +0100
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:07:12PM -0800, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> The existence of so many source files in the top-level directory of the
> Wireshark source distribution bothers me. I would love to be able to "ls"
> the top-level directory and not have it scroll off my screen.
> 
> I have diagrammed the current Wireshark source directory hierarchy at:
> 
> http://www.gliffy.com/pubdoc/3375981/L.png
> 
> With this in mind, and by analyzing the groupings in Makefile.common, I'd
> like to recommend the following movements:

I started to move many of the files into the ui/ and ui/cli/ directories. The
first small test failed horribly and others had to clean up quite a lot to get
the windows build going again. I intend to continue with this once I have a
working Windows build environment.

Ciao
      Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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