Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] GCC GTK3 Wireshark build warnings ?

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:23:17 -0500
On 11/11/15 13:22, Guy Harris wrote:

On Nov 11, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 11/11/15 12:28, Bill Meier wrote:

So: it seems we want to continue to support GTK3 ?

Yes, I think so.  At least RHEL 6 needs to continue to use the Gtk+ GUI (since its Qt isn't new enough).  (Though I still stick with Gtk2.)

Will RHEL 6 even bother to pick up 2.0?  Or do you mean "people who want to build Wireshark 2.0 themselves on RHEL 6, without having to build and install Qt themselves as well, will need to continue to use the GTK+ UI"?

No, RHEL won't upgrade. But those who compile-their-own (because they want something newer than 1.8) will have to use the Gtk+ GUI. (I roll my own--including some internal dissectors--and push it out to a few hundred machines via an (internal) yum repository.)

Gerald did mention that we'd only need to get rid of one thing to make the Qt GUI compatible with RHEL 6:

https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201510/msg00058.html

But that seems unlikely.