I agree with you that it is better to release a stable version of
the GIOP stuff as "normal" dissectors than to release a buggy version
as plugins. That being said, I think when you come around to it you will
find that pluginizing your dissectors is not very hard, it's just obscured
by a sea of Makefile.am changes :)
Ed
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Frank Singleton wrote:
> Frank Singleton wrote:
>
> > I am not up to speed on plugins yet, so any response would be
> > appreciated. It would appear that packet-giop.[ch] would need
> > updating as described above before the patch should be applied.
> >
>
> I guess I am trying to say that (IMO) its better for the forthcoming
> release to keep giop and idl2eth using "normal" dissectors, so
> end users can make use of it , then after the release, do the
> plugin thing ? I promise not to pollute the src tree with
> giop subdissectors until we get the plugin thing happening after
> the 0.8.19 release this week :-)
>
> I will however try to sneek in the USER exception code in the
> next 2 days .
>
> End users are using idl2eth now, and I just dont want to break anything
> for an official release.
>
> /Frank
>
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