Re: Wireshark 1.10.0rc1 is now available

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

On 05/01/13 15:15, Evan Huus wrote:
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Reinhard Speyerer <rspmn () arcor de> wrote:
> > or disabling test programs for glib < 2.16 if these functions are not
> > used in Wireshark proper.
>
> The test programs are not used in Wireshark proper, so someone with
> the proper automake-foo can disable wmem_test for older glib versions.
> Glib 2.14 is quite old at this point though, so it may just be worth
> bumping our minimum version. Do we have a specific time window of glib
> releases we make a point of trying to support?

Not that I know of.  Personally I usually like to check what popular 
OS's/distributions have so we know what we might be cutting off by 
bumping the version.

The ones I know/care about are:

RHEL/CentOS 5 has 2.12 so it's stuck at Wireshark 1.6 anyway.
RHEL/CentoS 6 has 2.22 so that version's good for a while.

Fedora 7 had 2.12
Fedora 8 had 2.14
Fedora 9 had 2.16

So by bumping the version to 2.16 we'd lose Fedora 8.  I can't say that 
would be a huge loss.

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