Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Patch to packet-frame.c for Mate access

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From: LEGO <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:57:19 +0100
> ...as might the native Windows version of Ethereal on which Gerald is
> working, and other possible non-GTK versions in the future.

So far MATE uses the tap only to prime the tree uing a filter string
and then to fetch data from the tree.

> At some point it'd be useful to allow some plugins to be written without
> any UI code, e.g. having them specify a table and fill that in, which
> would be printed by Tethereal and displayed by Ethereal.  Those could
> also be made plugins if the plugin mechanism were extended to support
> taps as well as dissectors.

As far as for MATE goes I do not think it should remain a plugin for
long. There would be  many advantages in getting it in epan. Like
making its data styructures accessible to an UI module.

As it becomes stable I think it would be worth moving it to epan which
I think is where it belongs.

Lujis