Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #61511, comment 26


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Jan 14, 2021, 7:52:50 PM (3 years ago)
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mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)
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  • Ticket #61511, comment 26

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    55For the immediate term: To ensure our users have access to wireshark3 for older macOS releases, update the port to gracefully fallback to 3.4.1 [for those cases]. That will stop the bleeding, and provide said users with a working port. This should probably be done ASAP.
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    7 Longer-term: If we want to support the latest wireshark3 releases across-the-board, there's going to be some work involved. Either we'll need to get QT 5.9 working for older macOS versions, or patch wireshark3 to not require QT 5.9 components. (I don't know whether the latter is even practical - or feasible - but throwing it out there as an idea.) Someone should also check the cmake scripts, and see if the project has a flag to disable the user of newer QT components. That sounds too good to be true, but who knows.
     7Longer-term: If we want to support the latest wireshark3 releases across-the-board, there's going to be some work involved. Either we'll need to get QT 5.9 working for older macOS versions, or patch wireshark3 to not require QT 5.9 components. (I don't know whether the latter is even practical - or feasible - but throwing it out there as an idea.) Someone should also check the cmake scripts, and see if the project has a flag to disable the use of newer QT components. That sounds too good to be true, but who knows.
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    99Thoughts?