Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Trying to write a LUA dissector for wireshark. How's the sup
There is still active development.
The docs, on the other hand, appear to have some issues, because there were two big changes in the past several months:
1) the LUA stuff was moved from the User's Guide to the Developer's Guide
2) the documentation system for Lua was changed from perl->XML->HTML to perl->AsciiDoc->HTML
Links to the docs got a bit screwed up due to (1) above, so some links will be dead until we get notified of them. (as you just did :)
I think what happened with link [3], which is of Chapter 10.4, is that the subsequent Chapters 10.6-10.18 used to be under/within Chapter 10.4 - i.e., they were Chapters 10.4.1-10.4.12 or whatever. That probably got screwed up due to (2) above. Although personally I kind of like the new structure, and Chapter 10.4 should probably just be deleted since it's now one sentence.
-hadriel
On Jan 13, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Stephan Arndt <arndt.stephan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm trying to write a dissector in Wireshark and want to use LUA for it.
> While trying to look for some documentation on how to get started, I got
> "mixed signals" on how much support there is for LUA within the
> wireshark community:
>
> On the plus side:
>
> There was this talk from Sharkfest '14 titled "Old & busted: C-code
> New-hotness: Lua", which puts LUA in a pretty good light for dissectors
> and also noted active developement on it in 1.11 and 1.12.
>
> But:
>
> There seems to be a lack of documentation, for example, the "Wireshark
> LUA API Reference Manual"[1] linked in the Wireshark Wiki on the LuaAPI
> page[2] is a 404, and the chapter[3] on LUA in the "Wireshark
> Developer's Guide"[4] is also non-existant.
>
>
> So after all, I wanted to know:
>
> Is LUA going to be supported in the future? Maybe even better than now?
> Or is it kind of deprecated, and not much used? As I said, I feel the
> signals are kind of mixed in this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stephan
>
>
> ------LINKS--------
> [1] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/wsluarm.html
> [2] http://wiki.wireshark.org/LuaAPI
> [3] https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/wsluarm_modules.html
> [4] https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/index.html
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