Sebastien Tandel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>>>    I am developing an analysis of the events occurring in ISIS. This 
>>> analysis should be an help to network operators to detect problems in 
>>> their network. Of course, to do this we have to present the results of 
>>> the analysis in a friendly fashion (many different graphs :)). 
>>> Furthermore being able to access this information from anywhere and in 
>>> real-time is really important for them. From anywhere, today, means 
>>> being accessible from a web page. I was then wondering whether you'll 
>>> accept a patch which performs an analysis by tshark outputting some 
>>> text (hardly human readable) which could be easily inserted in a RRD 
>>> by an external script (which could also be distributed by wireshark)?
>>>     
>> I think a better way to integrate this with Wireshark would be to add 
>> the graphing capabilities to Wireshark itself.  There could be an option 
>> to save these graphs once viewed.  Do you see a problem with doing it 
>> this way?
> 
> I also would prefer to have something completely integrated to wireshark
> but I've identified two problems ...
> 
> Currently you have to spend too much time (in terms of code to write) to
> be able to output one graph in wireshark. On the other hand, I've also
> seen that there is a point on the wishlist to implement a graph API with
> a pointer to a library which seems not maintained anymore (libplot, last
> release on July 2000). I've found gtkdatabox which can be very helpful
> but only for GTK2 (last versions) I therefore have another question : Is
> it possible to integrate new graph features (and analysis modules) in
> wireshark without being compatible GTK1.2? Or do you have some others
> propositions/pointers?

(Even) as one of those still "stuck" on GTK1.2 [on some platforms], I 
don't see it as reasonable to force the world to only develop new 
features compatible with GTK1.2.  As long as Wireshark still compiles 
and runs on GTK1.2 (with all the GTK2-specific stuff #ifdef'd out), I'm 
happy.

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