Has there been any consideration of this?

On Sep 3, 2010, at 5:53 PM, Ryan Govostes wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I noticed that Wireshark 1.4 came out today and is the first version to have 
> a 64-bit binary specifically for Snow Leopard.
> 
> However, this version still comes with the ChmodBPF startup item for the user 
> to install. As I noted over a year ago in a bug report[1], using startup 
> items in this fashion is deprecated and should be replaced by a launchd plist.
> 
> In addition to a plist for this purpose, I also wrote and included an 
> AppleScript to automatically install the plist file, which removes the 
> complicated installation instructions found in the read me file (which OS X 
> doesn't have any default file associations to open, I might add).
> 
> I understand that ChmodBPF comes from the libpcap project, which itself has 
> introduced a property list. However, theirs requires you to install an 
> additional tool; mine is self-contained. They also do not provide an 
> installer.
> 
> Is there any way for my replacement to be considered for the next release?
> 
> Regards,
> Ryan Govostes
> 
> [1]: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3760

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