Re: [Wireshark-dev] should extcap dir be a preference?

2014-08-27 Thread Roland Knall
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,

[Wireshark-dev] should extcap dir be a preference?

2014-08-26 Thread Martin Kaiser
Hi, 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. I'd

Re: [Wireshark-dev] should extcap dir be a preference?

2014-08-26 Thread Pascal Quantin
M Le 26 août 2014 15:59, Martin Kaiser li...@kaiser.cx a écrit : Hi, 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

Re: [Wireshark-dev] should extcap dir be a preference?

2014-08-26 Thread Pascal Quantin
Le 26 août 2014 20:00, Alexis La Goutte alexis.lagou...@gmail.com a écrit : On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com wrote: M Le 26 août 2014 15:59, Martin Kaiser li...@kaiser.cx a écrit : Hi, at the moment, the directory for the extcap binaries

Re: [Wireshark-dev] should extcap dir be a preference?

2014-08-26 Thread Alexis La Goutte
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com wrote: M Le 26 août 2014 15:59, Martin Kaiser li...@kaiser.cx a écrit : Hi, 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

Re: [Wireshark-dev] should extcap dir be a preference?

2014-08-26 Thread Guy Harris
On Aug 26, 2014, at 6:57 AM, Martin Kaiser li...@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