Fulvio, Thanks for the response.
> > > We are having a problem with this scenario: > > > > 1. A user installs WinPcap using the WinPcap installer, > maybe as part of > > another product installer. > > 2. The user then installs our product. It installs WinPcap silently, > > using the WinPcap installer. > > Just to know, what is going to do your product? We are using it to detect layer 2 broadcasts. [snip] > Not really. > Please take in mind that WinPcap is a prototype, although is > being used from > many companies. > So, we cannot spend time for this kind of issues for free. > > If your company really need this feature, the sources are > there, so please > do it yourself ;-)) Sure, I understand your position. I would think that this was an appropriate response, if this issue only affected our product. However, because the uninstaller does not do reference counting, this affects *every* product out there that uses WinPcap... which is why I would suggest that this should be fixed in your repository. Take for instance any two generic applications which utilize WinPcap, A and B. Both are installed and functioning on an end user's system, and both have reference counted wpcap.dll and Packet.dll in the Windows registry. At some point the user decides to uninstall application 'A'. Application A calls the WinPcap uninstall which happily uninstalls itself, and leaves application B non-functional. This is the situation we face, and unfortunately modifying the uninstaller for our distribution is not a feasible solution because any other WinPcap based application can uninstall itself and break any other WinPcap based application. Please let me know what you think, given this clarification. Thanks. SLH. > > fulvio > > > > ================================================================== > This is the WinPcap users list. It is archived at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > > To unsubscribe use > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================== > ================================================================= This is the WinPcap users list. It is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To unsubscribe use mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================================
