Re: idl2wrs cannot be disabled in Wireshark 1.8.

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>]

Petr Sumbera wrote:
> Jeff Morriss wrote:
>
>  >Looks like this came in this revision:
>  >
>  >http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=39985&view=revision
>  >
>  >The commit log doesn't list a reason, but I suppose it might be for
>  >simplicity (really, why have an option?).
>  >
>  >But, I'm not entirely sure it makes sense to install the script at all:
>  >its purpose is to generate dissectors which is a development task (for
>  >which you need the source code) not something someone would be doing on
>  >an installed system.
>  >
>  >Balint?
>
> Any conclusion on this topic? I was using '--disable-idl2wrs' to avoid 
> packaging this script. This no longer works..

A little more digging showed that Debian has a special wireshark-dev 
package which is presumably why idl2wrs was being installed.  But it 
does seem silly to deliver this script in non-Debian packages.  r43370 
should fix this; I'll schedule it to be back-ported to 1.8.0 .
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