Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Moving codecs to libwireshark or libwsutil?
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 11:15:04 -0800
On Nov 30, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> Yes I should have been clearer in my initial description. 
> My suggestion with an extra parameter giving the hash table address is also working fine, so I do not have a strong feeling either way (the changed parameter is faster to do but might not be the best long term solution).

Unless there's some compelling reason for them *not* to be in a dynamic library, I think making libcodec a dynamic library the best long-term solution.

> If possible I would like to have this fixed for Wireshark 2.0.1 but I wonder if such change is compatible with our usual policy to keep APIs constant (does it apply when they are buggy?).

Making it a dynamic library wouldn't change the API.