Re: Python bindings for wireshark

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

On 01/26/14 13:15, Evan Huus wrote:
> P.S. As a general comment to the list, we really ought to remove the
> old python bindings from trunk since they are terribly out of date and
> buggy at this point. Last time this came up it turned out some
> packager (redhat?) was still using them so we left them in, but I
> think they're probably doing more harm than good at this point...

Redhat has stopped enabling the Python bindings[1] but IIRC OpenSUSE or 
somebody else still had them enabled last I checked.

But I don't think that's a good reason to keep them around: just look in 
trunk-1.10 where we (I) disabled Python support to keep distributions 
(or anybody else) from trying to use something that's so buggy.

The other argument (that I remember) for keeping them around was "it's a 
bunch of code that shouldn't be thrown away."  But it'll always be there 
in the source code history...

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928131

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