Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] organizing ethereal?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:03:33 -0700

On Oct 20, 2003, at 4:40 PM, Bryan Henderson wrote:


I think people would find ethereal easier to work with on lots of
different levels if 1) the source tree directory structure were deepened a 
little;


Somebody (I forget who) was, as I remember, thinking about doing that.


 2) the executable loaded dissectors dynamically as needed;
Fine, as long as we don't have any platforms we care about where GLib doesn't support run-time loading.
Note also that not all dissectors are self-contained entities, so we might, in some cases, have multiple dissectors bundled into a single loadable module.
and 3) the filter descriptions were in a separate file, or even a whole tree. 

That's already been done in CVS, if by "file" you mean "man page file".