Re: Does libwsutil need to be its own library?

[Stephen Fisher <steve () stephen-fisher com>]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 06:41:44PM -0500, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> On 12/03/2010 06:30 PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> > Does libwsutil need to be its own library that is installed (on Unix)
> > alongside libwireshark and libwiretap?
>
> I think it's useful: it gives us a place that is neither wiretap nor 
> libwireshark to stick basic utility-type or otherwise shared code.
>
> Making it a shared library that is installed separately just means we 
> don't have 6 (or however many) copies of the code in each executable.
>
> Why?

I was just curious.  I rarely install Wireshark on machines I do 
development on (I run it from the build directory), so when I installed 
it for a change that the little ~22k libwsutil.so.0 was installed :).  I 
was thinking of it from more of a "do any non-Wireshark programs really 
need the wsutil shared library out there?" perspective compared to 
libwireshark that I know other programs utilize and libwiretap that is 
possibly used by other programs as well.  Thanks.


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