On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:09:11 -0400
Wyllys Ingersoll <Wyllys.Ingersoll at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
[...]
> Agreed - EOF snoop and focus efforts on Wireshark. If we are
> trying to attract new users and developers who are familiar with Linux,
> we need to offer tools that they know and understand. snoop is nice,
> but if it comes down to supporting only 1, we should choose the one
> with the bigger userbase and community support as long as it
> covers most of the existing functionality of the other.
>
>
> > Requiring that the i-team here update Wireshark with any functionality
> > in snoop that's missing in Wireshark might be (I bet would be) a deal
> > breaker; I'd rather have Wireshark in OpenSolaris with this "strange
> > place" situation than no Wireshark in OpenSolaris.
>
> I also don't see the logic behind forcing the wireshark
> project to address the missing functionality in snoop.
I don't either. But I would like to see a statement about the
wireshark community and maintainers and how easy it is estimated to be
to get them to accept patches. Its not an architectural concern. But
the cost of long term maintenance should effect which of the two we put
effort into.
mph
>
> -Wyllys
