Re: [sleuthkit-users] TSK 4.3.0 Release

[RB <ao...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Brian Carrier <ca...@sl...> wrote:
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> Thanks to the public contributions and the Basis developers for this work.
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Thanks to all indeed for the continued work!

While I know much of the work is predicated on what both analysts and
developers are familiar with, I must confess my trepidation at seeing
yet more Windows-only features creeping in.  We've already seen this
happen with Autopsy, to the point that the tools' origin platform is
now a third-class citizen.  With that same process now happening to
the core tool, I start to worry that the process will complete and we
who practice the art in, say, non-mainstream environments, will be
left in the cold.

How, exactly, is the libvmdk and libvhdi (both primarily developed on
Linux) support Windows-only?  Their APIs aren't platform-sensitive, so
is there at least a configure-time option to enable their use on other
platforms?