Re: 2.6 branch planning and post-branch changes

[Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>]

Hi Gerald,

2018-03-14 21:41 GMT+01:00 Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>:

> I plan on releasing 2.5.1 tomorrow and I've tentatively scheduled creating
> the 2.6 branch on April 2, followed by 2.6.0 on April 18.
>
> As discussed previously we'll drop support for Qt 4 and GTK+ in the master
> branch after master-2.6 is created. Unless there are strong objections I'd
> like to bump the minimum GLib version to 2.32.
>
> I'd also like your opinion on doing the following:
>
> Deprecating or removing Autotools. We'd need generate source tarballs
> using another method, e.g. tools/git-export-release.sh.

+1


> Shipping the Windows installers with Npcap.

+1 (or alternatively propose both Npcap and Winpcap in installer). We
should also prefer Npcap over WinPcap if both are installed (right now we
prefer WinPcap).


> Renaming protocols to match current reality, e.g. "bootp" to "dhcp" and
> "ssl" to "tls".
Regards,
Pascal.

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