Re: patch development questions

[Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com>]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Mark Vitale <mvitale () sinenomine net> wrote:

> I've used Wireshark for years but I'm brand new to Wireshark development.

Welcome :)

My understanding from reading the developer docs is that I should open bug
> reports and attach my patches
> to the tickets.   These patches should apply to the tip, not to a
> particular release.  Do you ever
> make exceptions to this policy?  That is, would you accept patches against
> 1.10?

Only bug-fixes and security patches go into the stable branches, so patches
that fall in those categories are welcome. Most of the time in those cases
people provide a patch against trunk and then we backport it, though
sometimes a backport is not possible for whatever reason.

If not, I'll make a new vm with a Linux distro that's not so conservative
> in its repo policies.
> Is there a particular distro you would recommend for Wireshark
> development, or doesn't it matter much?
> My only requirements are the need to use a package manager
> (yum/apt/whatever) to automate my
> dependency checking, and that its repos be current enough to configure and
> build the latest Wireshark.

Ubuntu seems to be a popular choice. Our buildbot runs 12.04 (the latest
LTS release) to build trunk, so you shouldn't have any issues with that or
any more recent version. As Anders says though, this is probably a moot
point.

Cheers,
Evan

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