Re: should extcap dir be a preference?

[Roland Knall <rknall () gmail com>]

I had a preference setting already in place, but removed it after
considering that extcap filters might be installed via some sort of
automatic setup, and searching for a user-defined path may proof to be
trickier than assuming a pre-defined one. That's why I added the folder to
the about dialog, so at least you can easily determine where it is located.

If there is a preference, I'd prefer, that it defaults to the current
settings.

regards
Roland


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Aug 26, 2014, at 6:57 AM, Martin Kaiser <lists () kaiser cx> wrote:
>
> > at the moment, the directory for the extcap binaries is defined at
> > compile time.
> >
> > When I first tried extcap a year ago, I created a patch to make the
> > extcap directory a preference. This was much easier for me to handle
> > when I played with several extcaps that needed frequent recompiling.
>
> So why is it easier to handle with the directory being a preference?  As
> far as I know, we don't have a preference for the directory in which Lua
> scripts are found, for example.
>
> Is it because the extcaps were in *different* directories, and you needed
> to point Wireshark at the directory for the extcap on which you're working?
>
> If so, does that make the path more like $PATH, so that you might want to
> have a *list* of directories?
>
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