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Unification of command line parameters for the sharks
From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:20:16 +0200
Hello List, this is a request for comments. I wanted to add half a dozen -d (decode as) options to wireshark and found that this feature does only exist for tshark and that -d is used by something else (initial display filter). My first idea was do rename -d on wireshark to something else and copy the tshark -d to wireshark. Then I didn't like the idea of copying code from tshark to wireshark. I'm not a big fan of code duplication and the inconsistencies between the command line options between the sharks is annoying. What about having a shared command line parsing code for all the sharks? Options fall into two categories: - global options that are available to all the tools and - gui options are specific to a particular gui. Gui options might be changed to -g<gui-specific-option-name> (or any other inconvenient letter). They would have the -g stripped and passed to a gui specific parser. This would have the side effect of making all core features available to all sharks (like: is there a reason why I can either have the summary line in tshark or the detailed decoding but not both and the decode as). Comments on this? Which other inconsistencies are there? Ciao Jörg -- Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Unification of command line parameters for the sharks Joerg Mayer (Aug 11)
- Re: Unification of command line parameters for the sharks Michael Tuexen (Aug 11)