Fwd: : tcpdump 4.xx preperations

[Ken Bantoft <ken () xelerance com>]

I didn't see this actually hit the list, so I'm forwarding it just in  
case it was missed.

We'll likely target the 1st 4.xx release around the end of September.


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> From: Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ottawa on ca>
> Date: August 29, 2007 8:40:57 AM EDT (CA)
> To: tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org
> Subject: tcpdump 4.xx preperations
>
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> I split the sources in the Makefile.in into a new section,
> LIBNETDISSECT_SRC, which makes libnetdissect.a.
>
> Sources in this file should set #define NETDISSECT_REWORKED
> before they #include "interface.h".  This removes all the  
> compatibility
> macros.
>
> All functions that use any of the new macros need to have a local
> called "ndo" passed down to them, and should be modified as follows:
>        TCHECK(foo)  -> ND_TCHECK(foo)
>        TCHECK2(foo,bar)  -> ND_TCHECK2(foo,bar)
>        TTEST(var)        -> ND_TTEST(var)
>        printf(foo)       -> ND_PRINT((foo))
>        vprintf(ap,len)   -> ND_DEFAULTPRINT((ap,len))
>
>        vflag            -> ndo->ndo_vflag
>        snapend          -> ndo->ndo_snapend
>        (..etc)
>
> I will be working on these slowly in the next week.
>
> I have revised the test cases to be a lot simpler to do new ones,
> and to be table driven.
>     cd tests
>     ./TESTone pattern
>     runs on test, (the first one that matches /^pattern/)
>
>     ./TESTrun
>     runs them all.
>
> I am proposing that the HEAD of the tree becomes tcpdump 4.xx
> (not 4.x.y).  If we need to do 4.xx.yy, it would be for security fixes
> *ONLY*.
>
> I am proposing that the next libpcap be called 1.zz, and that libpcap
> and tcpdump will not be released on the same schedule, i.e. that  
> xx != zz.
>
> (oh, and there is an ikev2 dissector, but it doesn't decrypt yet.  
> Thanks
> to Tero Kivinen for his 16MB file of somewhat hostile IKEv2  
> messages..)
>
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> ]   Michael Richardson,    Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON    | 
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