Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] General plugins

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From: "Christopher Kelley" <kelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 10:36:57 -0400
Hello all,

Has there been any discussion of implementing a general (non-dissector)
plug-in framework for ethereal?  I've been browsing the archives, but didn't
see any.  An example of what I mean is the tcp graphing patch at
(http://kostra.uh.cz/ethereal/).  I know there is debate about where that
belongs in the core of ethereal.  Maybe one solution would be to have a
general plug-in framework so that you don't have to recompile to add these
modules.  Then users that want extra functionality can easily add it and
those that don't don't have to plug it in.

Just some thoughts,
Chris
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Christopher R. Kelley

National Institute of Standards and Technology
820 West Diamond Ave.
Gaithersburg, MD 20899

Email: kelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx