Darren Reed wrote: > Well, if we no longer wish to support snoop and do not wish to bundle it > with the standard product, why not pull it out into a tar-ball of souce > code that can be downloaded and compiled? > > And maybe we could go a step further: create a project to > maintain/enhance snoop on a website such as sourceforge and let the > community take complete control of it? The community at large could even > port it to Linux or BSD, if such as their wish. Having it hosted on a > non-opensolaris web site would be important for many reasons.
Even if snoop is "deleted" from the source tree, it's still present in the Mercurial history, so someone who really does care about it can easily fetch the sources. And if there's nobody who cares, why bother trying to create a community somewhere for it? It seems too much like astroturf to me. Either there are people who care -- and who can trivially take a fork of the source from ON and do with it as they please -- or there's nobody who cares. In both cases, we needn't "help" them by creating a ghost ship on sourceforge. (And a weird one at that, since the code certainly will require a substantial amount of work to be even minimally portable.) The only thing blocking the removal of snoop in the past has been the lack of wireshark/tshark integration as a replacement. Has that finally been fixed? If so, then just do it. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
