Re: 2.6 branch planning and post-branch changes

[João Valverde <joao.valverde () tecnico ulisboa pt>]

On 14-03-2018 20:41, Gerald Combs wrote:
> 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.

No objections from me.

> Shipping the Windows installers with Npcap.
>
> Renaming protocols to match current reality, e.g. "bootp" to "dhcp" and "ssl" to "tls".

+1

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