Hiya, Gerald Combs wrote: > Joerg Mayer wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:46:07AM -0700, Gerald Combs wrote: >>> Joerg Mayer wrote: >>>> Hi Gerald, >>>> >>>> do you have any plans on a 1.1.3 release? >>> I'll try to have it out in the next couple of days. >> I think we need to resolve the GPLv2 only thing before a release.
I'm not quite up-to-speed with the problems here: is the problem that we have some GPLv2-only parts and some GPLv3-only parts? I'm not sure that that is a new problem, is it? > For plugins/profinet/crc16.[ch], why don't we generate a new module? It looks > like there are several generators available that output GPL-compatible code, > e.g. > > http://www.tty1.net/pycrc/pycrc.html > http://mcgougan.se/universal_crc/ > http://crcmod.sourceforge.net/ > > Pycrc appears to be the most friendly since you can pass it a model name, e.g. > "pycrc.py --model ccitt" and it includes a list of parameters in the > generated code. > > Also, it might be useful to have all of the CRC code in one place, such as > epan/crc/. It would be _really_ useful if each of our CRC modules listed their > corresponding parameters. As the original author of epan/crc16.c, I couldn't agree more. Btw: Guy Harris wrote: > ... but I updated the comment in epan/crc16.c to point to > Ross Williams' Web site, where he has links to a text and an HTML > version of his paper. It has a copy of the algorithm used to generate > the CRC16 tables for a given polynomial; You know that was there already, right? :) Ok so maybe the comment at the top of the file wasn't the most obvious place... ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
