Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] New dissector

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From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:01:17 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Joakim Wiberg wrote:

> The GPL isn't a problem, if we're using something that's GPL'd I think that
> we should help improve it we can.

That is great, but unless you are shipping Ethereal you are not obliged 
to.
 
> The the dissector is far from supporting all "features" of the protocoll,
> but all common parts have been implemented. What I would like, is to get
> this dissector into the next release, so if someone interested can start
> using it. Are you getting close to a release?

I am not sure how far we are from the next release and 0.9.12 only came 
out a little while ago, but anyone with CVS access will be able to try the 
dissector.

> Should I supply a patch as soon as possible so all of you can have a look at
> it, and I can make changes according to you're recomendations? I'm not sure
> how strict you're are about the coding convention, we have tried to follow
> the recomendations.

Let us see it, and we can modify the code if we don't like it. Especially 
if a sample capture file accompanies it.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com