Re: [Ethereal-dev] Major announcement

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John R. wrote:
> Some more FAQs for the Wireshark FAQ:
>
> "1) Why did you fork Ethereal?"
> as in, do you have a broad vision for improvements to the core of
> ethereal that you couldn't manage otherwise? Was it just to change the
> name? etc.

It seems (to ignorant me) that it must be more than just a name change 
since everything was _copied_ from Ethereal to Wireshark.  That seems to 
me to be a lot more work than a global search-n-replace from Ethereal to 
Wireshark.  Though maybe there were infrastructure reasons for that?  It 
does seem odd, though, to leave Ethereal out there with--presumably--no 
one left who can/will check in changes to it.

(Of course because it was a copy, now all of us need to subscribe to all 
the new mailing lists, get a new login for the new bug tracker, and 
probably a few more things; at least it looks like switching SVNs will 
be relatively painless.)

BTW, should the NEWS on ethereal.com be updated with this announcement?