Re: Gently migrating to Git + Gerrit

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On 20 September 2013 01:16, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Aug 8, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Similarly on Mac, it would be nice if the macosx-setup.sh script could
> > as much as possible be replaced with a set of homebrew packages (or
> > some other equivalent).
>
> On OS X and Windows, it would be nice if people doing Wireshark
> development were not required to install a third-party package manager, but
> I might be willing to put up with it.
>
> Unfortunately the required environment for building on Windows is not
normally available, even on a "developers" machine so using a package
manager would really simplify build environment setup for folks.
 Chocolatey is a one-line install, and then we could have one other command
e.g. cinst wireshark-build-deps to install a "virtual" package that pulls
in in everything else that is needed and not already present.

There are 3 phases to getting a successful build on Windows; setting up
build environment, retrieving build packages and then build.  Currently we
only have manual written instructions for the first part and the second and
third are done in a mix of nmake and cygwin shell scripts.  Moving to CMake
is an opportunity to rework all of this.

(On OS X and Windows, it would be unacceptable, as far as I'm concerned, to
> require people to install a third-party package manager in order to *use*
> Wireshark, so presumably we'll still be *bundling* third-party packages
> ourselves in the distributed versions.
>
> Definitely.
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