On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 09:56:24AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> On Jul 7, 2015, at 8:56 AM, Joerg Mayer <jma...@loplof.de> wrote:
> 
> > While I understand the logic behind our argument, I don't agree with it:
> > With the possibility of winpcap and npcap diverging, that may at one point
> > in time mean diverging and incompatible APIs. Also, what happens if a user
> > wants to use Wireshark with winpcap and also wants to use npcap? Does your
> > proposal have a solution to this?

> I would hope that the long term plan is to incorporate NPcap's capabilities 
> into WinPcap, now that the WinPcap development process is being opened up.  
> That would presumably mean that, in the long term, there's only one library, 
> with one API.

As long as that *is* the long term plan, then yes, this agrument is invalid and 
my
objections should be ignored.

Ciao
  Joerg

-- 
Joerg Mayer                                           <jma...@loplof.de>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
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