At one point a couple of years ago I had epan within a rewrite of the
prefs of being independent. I could compile independently, and there were
only two unresolved symbols in the resulting library remaining. I'm sure it's
drifted since then. The point is that while it's a fair bit more work with
epan ( as opposed to wiretap, which was independent last I checked ), it can
be done, and at one point almost was.


Ed
Joerg Mayer wrote:

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:36:52PM -0500, Ed Warnicke wrote:


I'd rather that
A) Collapse configure and epan/configure into one (and maybe
wiretap/configure)
not occur for the following reason:
I'd like to see epan and wiretap independently distributable at some
point so that they can be used by applications other than
ethereal and tethereal. I suspect there are others here who share
similar ambitions. Collapsing epan/configure and wiretap/configure
into configure moves us further from this goal.



While I expected that argument for wiretap :) I don't really see this happening with epan: I think the api would change too often - but maybe I'm wrong. Actually A) should be done after B), if at all: It makes the properties of a libepan (or whatever name) much clearer.

Ciao
            J�rg

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