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+
+<preface id="Preface">
+ <title>Preface</title>
+ <section id="PreForeword">
+ <title>Foreword</title>
+ <para>
+ This book tries to give you a guide to start your own experiments into
+ the wonderful world of Ethereal development.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Developers who are new to Ethereal are often having a hard time getting
+ their development environment up and running. This is
+ especially true for win32 developers, as a lot of the tools and methods
+ used when building Ethereal are much more common in the unix world than
+ on win32.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The first part of this book will describe how to set up the environment
+ needed to develop Ethereal.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The second part of this book will describe how to change the Ethereal
+ source code.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ We hope that you find this book useful, and look forward to your comments.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="PreAudience">
+ <title>Who should read this document?</title>
+ <para>
+ The intended audience of this book is anyone going into the development of
+ Ethereal.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This book is not intended to explain the usage of Ethereal in general.
+ Please refer the
+ <ulink url="&EtherealUsersGuidePage;">Ethereal User's Guide</ulink>
+ about Ethereal usage.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ By reading this book, you will learn how to develop Ethereal. It will
+ hopefully guide you around some common problems that frequently appears for
+ new (and sometimes even advanced) developers of Ethereal.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="PreAck">
+ <title>Acknowledgements</title>
+ <para>
+ The authors would like to thank the whole Ethereal team for their
+ assistance. In particular, the authors would like to thank:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Gerald Combs, for initiating the Ethereal project.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Guy Harris, for many helpful hints and his effort in maintaining
+ the various contributions on the mailing lists.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The authors would also like to thank the following people for their
+ helpful feedback on this document:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>XXX - Please give feedback :-)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ And of course a big thank you to the many, many contributors of the
+ Ethereal development community!
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="PreAbout">
+ <title>About this document</title>
+ <para>
+ This book was developed by
+ <ulink url="mailto:&AuthorEmail;">Ulf Lamping</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ It is written in DocBook/XML.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ You will find some specially marked parts in this book:
+ </para>
+ <warning><title>This is a warning!</title>
+ <para>
+ You should pay attention to a warning, as otherwise data loss might occur.
+ </para>
+ </warning>
+ <note><title>This is a note!</title>
+ <para>
+ A note will point you to common mistakes and things that might not be
+ obvious.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ <tip><title>This is a tip!</title>
+ <para>
+ Tips will be helpful for your everyday work developing Ethereal.
+ </para>
+ </tip>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="PreDownload">
+ <title>Where to get the latest copy of this document?</title>
+ <para>
+ The latest copy of this documentation can always be found at:
+ <!-- <ulink url="&LatestVersionWebsite;">&LatestVersionWebsite;</ulink>;
+ and at: -->
+ <ulink url="&EtherealWebSite;/docs/developer-guide/"/>.
+ XXX - is that true?
+ </para>
+ <!-- <para>
+ In addition, you can find a PDF version of the guide at:
+ <ulink url="&LatestVersionPDFWebsiteA4;">
+ &LatestVersionPDFWebsiteA4;
+ </ulink>
+ in A4 and
+ <ulink url="&LatestVersionPDFWebsiteUSLetter;">
+ &LatestVersionPDFWebsiteUSLetter
+ </ulink>
+ in US Letter.
+ </para> -->
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="PreFeedback">
+ <title>Providing feedback about this document</title>
+ <para>
+ Should you have any feedback about this document, please send them
+ to the authors through <ulink url="mailto:&EtherealDevMailList;">&EtherealDevMailList;</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+</preface>