Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] filters for ethereal?

[Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

#define quoting(Laurent Deniel)
// Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote:
// >  
// > Instead of interpreting a text definition, wouldn't it be better to
// > have decoders as dinamic loading pre-compiled modules ? 
// 
// IMO, having a DLL, a shared library or whatever C code, is the same
// as modifying the ethereal C code.  

I'd rather not to recompile the entire package just to add a decoder.
Just let the main package quiet, go developing or adding new decoders.
With libdl, adding dynamic loaded modules is very simple, so this will
not be the difficult part.  My main concern is the API of these
modules.

Apache people uses modules.  They could also simply modify the C code,
but didn't.

					Jonny

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Joao Carlos Mendes Luis            M.Sc. Student
jonny@xxxxxxxxxxxx                 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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