Hmm, when you talked about the compatibility layer, I thought about WinPcap, not MingW. I agree that people doing serious development stay away from MingW. Unfortunately for me, that's what I have; but fortunately, it worked perfectly for me, and for a good many people too. There are some people out there running ntop now that couldn't before, and that's a good thing©. In the end, I think I made more good than bad - even if little good. Regards,
Georger --- Burton Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Let's see... > > ntop runs fine under windows - that's what the > #ifdef WIN32 stuff is for. > In fact, for a nominal convenience fee Luca delivers > a native executable, > built under MC V++ .Net through shop.ntop.org. > > The projects you are listing (including those you > THINK are built via MinGW > such as Ethereal (see: > http://anonsvn.ethereal.com/ethereal/trunk/README.win32)) > - like ntop - all > have binary packages available which are built by > and run as real Windows > executables, vs. the shim layer of MinGW. > > Anyone using MinGW is - almost by definition - in > the hobbiest category. > > > RRD: I've patched ntop for rrd 1.2.x, but at the > time RRD itself was going > through 1-3 releases per week and it simply wasn't > stable enough for ntop to > use. In fact, there's data in the FAQ: > > Q. What about the multi-threaded development > version? > A. Stay away. > > (UPDATED) I was able to patch ntop to work with > 1.2.7+ and experimented > with it a little bit. > > The binary .rrd file formats are different, so if > you try 1.2.x, any new > .rrd files which are > created are incompatible. > > The new version doesn't use freetype, it uses > libart, which introduces a > different (not better, > nor worse) chain of dependencies. > > > > > -----Burton __________________________________________________ Converse com seus amigos em tempo real com o Yahoo! Messenger http://br.download.yahoo.com/messenger/ _______________________________________________ Ntop-dev mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev
