Hi, 2015-06-04 23:58 GMT+02:00 Gerald Combs <ger...@wireshark.org>: > We often make major releases in June, just before Sharkfest. That probably > won't happen this year. A major release now would mean either releasing 2.0 > (featuring the Qt UI) without feature parity with the GTK+ UI, or releasing > 1.14 (featuring the GTK+ UI). I'm not particularly fond of either choice. > > Unless there's a compelling reason to get something out the door now, I'd > prefer to wait until the Qt UI is ready, which raises the question of the > definition of "ready." We've been tracking complete and pending features at > > https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/QtShark > > We've made a lot of progress but are still lacking many features including > the Wireless Toolbar, a few Statistics dialogs, and quite a few Telephony > dialogs. IMO it would be a great disservice to our users to release Wireshark with the current Qt state causing regressions due to missing features. I also think that delaying our established release cycle time-wise indefinitely would also be a disservice since Wireshark is a professional tool and our users are expecting use to provide a new release around June and they may have committed upgrade plans. Implementing the remaining missing functionality in a rush and releasing with Qt as a default UI is also something which I would not do, because the newly implemented parts would not be tested extensively.
The GTK+ UI is in a releasable state AFAIK thus I propose releasing 1.14 with GTK+ shortly after Sharkfest because it is the best we can do four our users and we can fiinish the final touches during Sharkfest. The GTK+ UI can be made really nice on OS X using Homebrew [1] and I think nothing prevents us from providing a native Quartz UI on OS in our .dmg-s. I can work on this during Sharkfest. If someone beats me to that I plan fixing the Windows GTK+ builds and making them beautiful, too by switching to GTK+ 3.1x for 1.14. Doing the work on the OS X part took me about a week and I expect the Windows work to be about the same. Cheers, Balint [1] http://balintreczey.hu/blog/beautiful-wireshark-on-os-x-using-homebrew-and-gtk3quartz/ ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe