Re: 1.11.0 release

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Oct 9, 2013, at 3:21 AM, Bálint Réczey <balint () balintreczey hu> wrote:

> Building Wireshark already needs way more tools than just make and a C compiler.

Perhaps we should fix that, so that the release tarball includes all generated source.  I'd prefer not to require Flex, 
yacc/Bison, Perl, or Python, ideally.

> I also can't name any platform we would like to support but where
> CMake is not available easily (like apt-get/yum/etc. install cmake).


        http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/cgi-bin/search?term=CMake&Search=Search

although

        http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/cgi-bin/search?term=Qt&Search=Search

so maybe they need to add a more modern version of Qt (which may require CMake).  cmake.org does have 2.6.4 binaries 
for HP-UX:

        http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html

so hopefully that will be good enough.

The HP-UX Porting and Archive Centre does have binaries of Wireshark; whether they'll stop doing so for 1.12 is another 
matter - hopefully, they won't.

(I consider *all* currently-developed UN*Xes as platforms we should at least support to the extent of having third 
parties be able to package it.  The only platforms I see us supporting *directly* are Windows and OS X, because I 
suspect only a minority of potential users of Wireshark would want to be forced to add on some Linux/BSD-style 
packaging system just to get Wireshark.  Solaris, at least as of Solaris 11, has a Shiny New Packaging System built in, 
and has Wireshark in that packaging system; HP-UX has the Porting and Archive Centre, and they offer Wireshark and 
hopefully will continue to do so; AIX, there's The Written Word's packages.)
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