Re: r45615: Read the program name rather than hardcoding it

[Anders Broman <a.broman () bredband net>]

Guy Harris skrev 2012-10-17 20:04:
> On Oct 17, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Anders Broman <a.broman () bredband net> wrote:
>
> > I will not have the time to rework that now. PF_DIR or program name should come from
> > configure.nmake or something like that on Windows then I suppose.
> Why not just have it come from epan/filesystem.c, as it does now?  What's the problem with hardcoding it?
>
> I'll revert the change for now, so that TShark goes back to picking up the standard preferences.
>
> At least for protocol and tap preferences, and preferences that apply to Wireshark regardless of the GUI toolkit, we 
> want the same configuration directory for TShark and Wireshark built with GUI toolkit X and Wireshark built with GUI 
> toolkit Y; if there are preferences that only apply to particular GUI toolkits, they should be in separate files, so 
> that, for example, protocol and tap preferences, personal plugins, and the like are shared by everything that uses 
> libwireshark.
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.
Regards
Anders
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