Re: Wireshark 1.12.0 is now available

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

On Jul 31, 2014, at 2:51 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org> wrote:

>  Removed Dissectors
>
>     * The ASN1 plugin has been removed as it's deemed obsolete.

The source is still in the source tree; should we get rid of it?

>     * The GNM dissector has been removed as it was never used.

It's still in the source tree, and I made the 1.99.0 autofoo and nmake builds, at least, use it.

If it's considered useful, we should build it.

If it's not considered useful, we should presumably get rid of it from the source tree.

>  Vendor-supplied Packages
>
>   Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark
>   packages.

So are the *BSDs "Linux" or "Unix"? :-)

>   You can usually install or upgrade Wireshark using
>   the package management system specific to that platform.

I see the UN*Xes we support falling into these groups:

        1) most Linux distributions, the *BSDs, Solaris 11:

                the OS supplier provides a package management system and package repository, and that repository 
includes a Wireshark package;

        2) HP-UX, various versions of Solaris, AIX(?), OS X:

                there are third-party package repositories of some sort, with Wireshark packages (HP-UX Porting and 
Archiving Centre, whatever there is for Solaris these days, whatever there is for AIX, Fink/MacPorts);

        3) OS X:

                there's a package from wireshark.org.

The vendors of the OSes in category 2) are presumably the Unix vendors that don't supply their own Wireshark packages; 
that's the majority of commercial Unix vendors, for what that's worth.

I might be tempted to say:

        Getting Wireshark

          Wireshark source code, and installation packages for Windows and OS X,are available
          from [6]http://www.wireshark.org/download.html.

         Vendor-supplied Packages

          Most Linux distributions, the *BSDs, and Solaris 11 have packaging systems that provide their own Wireshark 
packages. On those platforms, you can usually install or upgrade Wireshark using the package management system specific 
to that platform.

         Third-Party packages

          For other platforms, a list of third-party packages can be found in [7]the "Third-Party Packages" section of 
the download page on the Wireshark web site.

> Known Problems

        ...

>   The 64-bit Mac OS X installer doesn't support Mac OS X 10.9
>   ([19]Bug 9242)

Isn't that fixed?  And didn't it only apply to Qt binaries in any case?

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