Nmap Development: Re: About the libpcap included with nmap and WinPcap

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 09:32:54AM -0500, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> I will go ahead and admit that I am probably confused on this matter
> since I rarely use nmap on Windows, but here it goes anyway.
>
> Since WinPcap is required for nmap on Windows, couldn't the
> libpcap/Win32 and libpcap/msdos directories be deleted from the included
> libpcap to reduce the nmap source distros? Those directories look to
> take up about 300kb together.
Good idea.  Changing the distribution tarballs makes upgrading a bit
of a pain (you need to repeat this each time), but I think it is worth
it in this case.  It reduces the .tar.bz2 size by about 50K (about
4%).  I've done this for the next version.

Cheers,
-F

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