Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: MGCP update

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 14:24:44 +0200
Martin Mathieson wrote:

>I must admit, editing that file made me feel dirty.
>  
>
Keep your fingers clean (at least before dinner), that's what my mother
used to say ;-)

I don't know that specific file, but  I know a lot of Ethereal source
files in desperate need of a cleanup.

>I can't think of any reason for mgcp to be a plugin.  In fact, other than to
>help maintain the plugin api I'm not sure why any of the dissectors in svn
>are plugins.
>  
>
plugins are quite helpful when doing "distributed development" of a
dissector (and of the depending protocol), where often changes are done
and has to be distributed across a limited user base, which should maybe
not being part of the Ethereal release.

And it's easier to replace a DLL instead of the whole exe (sorry, win32
speak).


I agree that there's currently no "real" reason to use a plugin or not...

Regards, ULFL