Darren Reed wrote:
Another question in my mind is why shouldn't we kickstart a snoop
project on sourceforge? If it fails to attract a lot of attention, so
be it, but isn't it worthwhile as an experiment? If it doesn't go
anywhere, then that's a decision that the community at large has made,
rather than one that Sun makes.
If Sun wants to stop developing snoop and similarly envisage ceasing
support of it, why shouldn't Sun enable folks to continue hacking on it ?
Why don't they now? Because Sun owns it.
Darren
An interesting idea, but I am not sure that snoop is a good place to
start. Has anyone ever expressed an interest in hacking snoop? Does it
have any attribute that makes it a better starting point for hacking
than wireshark?
Remember that the whole reason that we must keep it in the distro is
that so much it built on it in scripts, tests, etc. That means that if
we did pass it to sourceforge or something like that, the one proviso is
that it would have to remain backwards compatible forever (or at least
until we did drop it). This would make it even less attractive for hacking.
And not to mention snoop is pretty hairy internally. Again not the best
place to start hacking.
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