Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Preparing for 1.0

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From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:43:36 +0800

Ulf Lamping wrote:

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The state of the current API is just a bit of a mess (I know a lot of very bad design in it), so making it stable in it's current state is certainly a very bad idea.
Just my $.0002: one thing that impressed me with Ethereal when I first started working with it was how easily I could write dissectors that Just Worked. The API may be a bit of a mess but as a newbie I found it very very easy to at least get at least the basic dissection done. (That's not to say that cleaning it up won't improve it, but rather that it's pretty good already. :-) )