Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Filter for generated items
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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:40:16 +0100
On 11/16/2010 02:57 AM, Joerg Mayer wrote:

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:01:33AM -0700, Stephen Fisher wrote:

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 07:36:46AM +0100, Helge Kruse wrote:


Thank you for fixing. But since I need to deploy the DLL to existing
Wireshark installations, this would not help in this case. I cannot
force to install a specific version of Wireshark just to support my
dissector.


Please note that plugins are not guaranteed to work on any version of
Wireshark other than the one it was compiled for.  Sometimes they work
on different versions, but other times they fail (sometimes in strange
ways) because of changes to the core Wireshark functions.


I thought that ABI compatibility within a stable release should
be guaranteed except for emergency (security) fixes. That means if
a plugins works with 1.2.7 it can be expected to work for 1.2.8 up to
the last 1.2.x release ever. Did I miss something?

Ciao
  Joerg


Hi,
You're right, there should be little reason for plugins not to work in newer maintenance releases of stable branches. Otherwise we're not doing things right. 

Thanks,
Jaap