Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] RFD: Creating subdirectories in epan/dissectors/

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry to reply to myself, but I forgot the second half of my idea:

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 11:19:06AM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> a discussion hidden in the bugtracker (id=7639) reminded me of something
> I have wanted to ask for a while:
> We have an (almost) flat structure in epan/dissectors/ and do additional
> structuring via file names instead, e.g. look at
> packet-xmpp-conference.c
> packet-xmpp-conference.h
> packet-xmpp-core.c
> packet-xmpp-core.h
> packet-xmpp-gtalk.c
> packet-xmpp-gtalk.h
> packet-xmpp-jingle.c
> packet-xmpp-jingle.h
> packet-xmpp-other.c
> packet-xmpp-other.h
> packet-xmpp-utils.c
> packet-xmpp-utils.h
> packet-xmpp.c
> packet-xmpp.h
> 
> other examples are packet-dcercp*, packet-aim*, packet-gsm_*, packet-bt*
> and several more.
> What I'd like to do is put these dissectors that belong *to a single protocol*
> into a subdirectory of that name, i.e. move them to
> 
> xmpp/packet-conference.c
> xmpp/packet-conference.h
> xmpp/packet-core.c
> xmpp/packet-core.h
> xmpp/packet-gtalk.c
> xmpp/packet-gtalk.h
> xmpp/packet-jingle.c
> xmpp/packet-jingle.h
> xmpp/packet-other.c
> xmpp/packet-other.h
> xmpp/packet-utils.c
> xmpp/packet-utils.h
> xmpp/packet-xmpp.c    <- special case, main protocol name
> xmpp/packet-xmpp.h    <- special case, main protocol name
> 
> What do you think?

Second part:

Move the plugins into the epan/dissectors/ directory. It's been irritating
me for quite some time to have dissector stuff outside epan.

Thanks
    Jörg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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