Hi, On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Bálint Réczey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > 2015-06-04 23:58 GMT+02:00 Gerald Combs <[email protected]>: > > We often make major releases in June, just before Sharkfest. That > probably > > won't happen this year. A major release now would mean either releasing > 2.0 > > (featuring the Qt UI) without feature parity with the GTK+ UI, or > releasing > > 1.14 (featuring the GTK+ UI). I'm not particularly fond of either choice. > > > > Unless there's a compelling reason to get something out the door now, I'd > > prefer to wait until the Qt UI is ready, which raises the question of the > > definition of "ready." We've been tracking complete and pending features > at > > > > https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/QtShark > > > > We've made a lot of progress but are still lacking many features > including > > the Wireless Toolbar, a few Statistics dialogs, and quite a few Telephony > > dialogs. > IMO it would be a great disservice to our users to release Wireshark > with the current Qt state causing regressions due to missing features. > I also think that delaying our established release cycle time-wise > indefinitely would also be a disservice since Wireshark is a > professional tool and our users are expecting use to provide a new > release around June and they may have committed upgrade plans. > Implementing the remaining missing functionality in a rush and > releasing with Qt as a default UI is also something which I would not > do, because the newly implemented parts would not be tested > extensively. > > The GTK+ UI is in a releasable state AFAIK thus I propose releasing > 1.14 with GTK+ shortly after Sharkfest because it is the best we can > do four our users and we can fiinish the final touches during > Sharkfest. > The GTK+ UI can be made really nice on OS X using Homebrew [1] and I > think nothing prevents us from providing a native Quartz UI on OS in > our .dmg-s. I can work on this during Sharkfest. > If someone beats me to that I plan fixing the Windows GTK+ builds and > making them beautiful, too by switching to GTK+ 3.1x for 1.14. Doing > the work on the OS X part took me about a week and I expect the > Windows work to be about the same. > > The question is when Wireshark Qt will be feature parity with Wireshark GTK. If it is for 3 or 4 month (like September/October), it is possible to wait to release a new major release. if it is for next year... it should be great to release a 1.14 Regards, > Cheers, > Balint > > [1] > http://balintreczey.hu/blog/beautiful-wireshark-on-os-x-using-homebrew-and-gtk3quartz/ > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> > Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > mailto:[email protected] > ?subject=unsubscribe >
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