On Aug 11, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote: > Hello List, > > this is a request for comments. > > I wanted to add half a dozen -d (decode as) options to wireshark and found > that this feature does only exist for tshark and that -d is used by something > else (initial display filter). > My first idea was do rename -d on wireshark to something else and copy the > tshark > -d to wireshark. Then I didn't like the idea of copying code from tshark to > wireshark. I'm not a big fan of code duplication and the inconsistencies > between > the command line options between the sharks is annoying. > > What about having a shared command line parsing code for all the sharks? > > Options fall into two categories: > - global options that are available to all the tools and > - gui options are specific to a particular gui. Gui options might > be changed to -g<gui-specific-option-name> (or any other inconvenient > letter). They would have the -g stripped and passed to a gui specific > parser. > > This would have the side effect of making all core features available to > all sharks (like: is there a reason why I can either have the summary line > in tshark or the detailed decoding but not both and the decode as). > > Comments on this? I like the idea of having a consistent set of command line options. What about getting dumpcap in the same boat as the sharks... > Which other inconsistencies are there? Irene found some between dumpcap and the sharks and dumpcap related to remote capturing. It is -u and -r.
Best regards Michael > > Ciao > Jörg > > -- > Joerg Mayer <[email protected]> > We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that > works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology. > ___________________________________________________________________________ > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________ 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
