Re: Wireshark 1.4.10 is now available

[Krishnamurthy Mayya <krishnamurthymayya () gmail com>]

Thanks for the reply Harris.
Sorry for asking too many questions. So now, what is the exact link for
getting the subversion trunk???

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Nov 1, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Krishnamurthy Mayya wrote:
>
> >  A small doubt here. Is the wireshark stable version available now
> i.e.(wireshark-1.4.9) is the one which has been renamed from 1.4.6 ??????
>
> No.  There *IS* no version of Wireshark that was renamed from 1.4.6.
>  1.4.6 is 1.4.6; 1.4.9 is 1.4.9, which is three dot-dot releases later than
> 1.4.6 and has three dot-dot releases worth of bug fixes over and above
> those in 1.4.6.
>
> > I am trying to get the source code of 1.4.6 but not able to get it.
>
> Try looking at, for example
>
>
> http://wiresharkdownloads.riverbed.com/wireshark/src/all-versions/wireshark-1.4.6.tar.bz2
>
> in the US or
>
>        http://nervion.us.es/wsdownload/src/wireshark-1.4.6.tar.bz2
>
> in Spain or
>
>
> http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/wireshark/src/all-versions/wireshark-1.4.6.tar.bz2
>
> in Germany or, for mirrors closer to you, look in
>
>        https://sourceforge.net/projects/wireshark/files/src/all-versions/
>
> for a 1.4.6 tarball.
>
> > And one more question is, we are developing extensions for wireshark and
> currently with version 1.4.9 we have been successful in doing so. Would it
> be more appropriate if we take the development version 1.7.x and submit our
> changes OR as long as the source is clearly mentioned any version would do??
>
> If you want to submit the changes to the Wireshark project for inclusion
> in Wireshark, the best version to use is the Subversion trunk.  Patches
> against 1.4.x or 1.6.x, or even against a 1.7.x tarball, run the risk of
> making changes to code that we have also changed, which would, if we were
> to try to put those changes into the Wireshark source, require us to merge
> the two changes.  This means that versions other than the Subversion trunk
> would be less likely to be accepted, or accepted in a timely fashion, as it
> would require more work (possibly a *lot* more work) on our part.  The
> lower the version number, the worse the problem (so 1.4.6 would be worse
> than 1.4.9, which would be worse than *any* 1.6.x release, which would be
> worse than a 1.7.x tarball, which would be worse than the SVN trunk).
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