Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] User Accessible Tables, please review

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> Luis Ontanon wrote:
>
>   
> > I have four diferent examples I wrote myself:
> > four user encap "protocols", the k12 config file, the snmpv3 users
> > file and lastly the df_macros table
> >
> > but there's more candidates in there, not written by me:
> >     
>
> Are these all preference settings?
>
> If so, should this be a preference type?
>   
That's the same that comes to my mind.

While I can see that this is a case for a new preference setting type, 
adding a completely new mechanism really seems "over engineered" - 
unless there's a real good reason to do so.

Another drawback of your solution is to explain things to users - some 
settings can be set through the GUI, some other can be set through a 
file in, some can be ... - that doesn't sound very clean to me.

Regards, ULFL