Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] How do I know the wireshark version FROM a plugin dissector AT execution time ?

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 1, 2009, at 2:44 PM, wsgd wrote:

> There is an additional field into pinfo (1.1.z).
> And so, the following fields are not at the same place.

We've never guaranteed that plugins will be binary-compatible between  
major versions - until 1.0, I don't think we guaranteed binary  
compatibility between versions at all; I *think* we've maintained  
binary compatibility between all the 1.0.x versions.

If the plugin in question is wsgd, it really should become part of  
Wireshark at some point, which would presumably make this not an issue.