Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] plugins to builtins
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From: Andreas <AndreasSander1@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:20:18 +0200
Am 21.06.2011 00:27, schrieb Roland Knall:


The reason against plugins might be, and I am just guessing here, that
everyone is talking about the same dissector if it is built-in. But
the plugin could be from a prior installation, or a different
wireshark version.




I tried to figure out for some time, why my
dissector would not register underneath the SercosIII dissector, only
to find an old version of that specific plugin lying in my
~/.wireshark/plugins directory. That might be not the best reason in
the world, but for me it was a nasty mix-up, which cost me quite some
time.
Well, the ~/.wireshark/ directory tree is under your personal control. I wouldn't blame neither Wireshark nor any plugin concept for any outdated files in this tree. Probably one could add a version number for the plugins directory like you find it in the Wireshark program directory tree. But honestly, installing a new version of Wireshark may require to cleanup hacks like dissectors in ~/.wireshark/plugins.
Moving some dissectors to be built-in probably make sense, as the ABI wasn't as stable as required to guarantee compatibility with bugfix versions (even in stable branches). 

--
Andy