Re: 2.6 branch planning and post-branch changes

[Roland Knall <rknall () gmail com>]

Big +1!

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 9:46 PM, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>
wrote:

> Hi Gerald,
>
> 2018-03-14 21:41 GMT+01:00 Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>:
>
> > I plan on releasing 2.5.1 tomorrow and I've tentatively scheduled
> > creating the 2.6 branch on April 2, followed by 2.6.0 on April 18.
> >
> > As discussed previously we'll drop support for Qt 4 and GTK+ in the
> > master branch after master-2.6 is created. Unless there are strong
> > objections I'd like to bump the minimum GLib version to 2.32.
> >
> > I'd also like your opinion on doing the following:
> >
> > Deprecating or removing Autotools. We'd need generate source tarballs
> > using another method, e.g. tools/git-export-release.sh.
>
> +1
>
>
> > Shipping the Windows installers with Npcap.
>
> +1 (or alternatively propose both Npcap and Winpcap in installer). We
> should also prefer Npcap over WinPcap if both are installed (right now we
> prefer WinPcap).
>
>
> > Renaming protocols to match current reality, e.g. "bootp" to "dhcp" and
> > "ssl" to "tls".
> Regards,
> Pascal.
>
>
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