On Oct 17, 2012, at 12:35 PM, Anders Broman <a.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One use case is a internal version which would be nice to be able to install co-existing with a
> release version with separate profiles and preferences. Having a different program name makes it clearer
> that it *is* a internal version.
...but what's different about it isn't its name, what's different about it is the version.
Furthermore, there isn't even an "it" - there are at least two "it"s, Wireshark and TShark. For that use case, what would the internal versions of Wireshark and TShark be called? If it'd be "wireshark-XXX" and "tshark-XXX" for some value of "XXX", perhaps the preference directory should be {Wireshark,.wireshark}-XXX, although there might also be cases where the name is different but the preferences directory should be shared, so perhaps the two should be configured independently.