On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 01:56:53PM +1000, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> After we start fixing the bugs in ethereal as we get more bugreports on
> misdissection the
> dissectors in ethereal will probably start becoming THE open reference to
> these interfaces.
Hooray! That's my ultimate goal as well.
> If nothing happens in the field of maintenance of freedce or the idl files
> anytime soon
> I would like to propose that we take the existing idl files, adjust them for
> the changes/bugfixes we already
> have for them in the ethereal dissectors and that we embedd them into the
> dissector source files as comments.
> Perhaps as comments starting with /*IDL:
> so that it would be easy to use just
> cat packet-dcerpc-samr.c | grep "/*IDL" | sed -e "s/\/\*IDL//g" -e
> "s/\*\///g"
> to regenerate the IDL file.
Sounds like a great idea!
> This would allow us to keep the idl file updated as we fix bugs in the
> dissector.
> It would be sad if the idl files that exist will just become obsolete and
> disappear.
Well the information will be embedded in the dissectors but having IDL
files available would be very nice.
Tim.
