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Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors
From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 15:01:26 -0700
On Oct 7, 2013, at 2:40 PM, Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de> wrote:
If I understand it correctly, he is talking about the backend:
Meaning "PIDL, the tool...". I think it'd be a mistake to fork PIDL-the-language (or the protocol descriptions written in PIDL-the-language) unless there are some places where correct dissection, or sufficiently complete dissection for Wireshark's purposes, or some useful new Wireshark feature, requires a *language* change rather than, say, a specific-to-Wireshark conformance file. Forking the language or the protocol descriptions would make it more difficult to pick up Samba's improvements to the PIDL descriptions. If there's a reasonably standard interface into which backends plug, so that the Samba team can maintain the front end and we can maintain the Wireshark back end, then I think it would make sense for the Wireshark team to be the ones who maintain the Wireshark backend, so that we can adapt it to our needs without having to involve the Samba team (unless the interface between the front and back ends needs to change for either Samba reasons or Wireshark reasons; hopefully that won't happen very often if at all). ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors, (continued)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors Joerg Mayer (Oct 07)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors Anders Broman (Oct 07)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors Matthieu Patou (Oct 08)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors Joerg Mayer (Oct 07)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors Matthieu Patou (Oct 21)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors mmann78 (Oct 21)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors Matthieu Patou (Oct 26)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors Jeff Morriss (Oct 07)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors Guy Harris (Oct 07)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors Joerg Mayer (Oct 07)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors Guy Harris (Oct 07)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors ronnie sahlberg (Oct 07)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors Guy Harris (Oct 07)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors Joerg Mayer (Oct 07)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors Guy Harris (Oct 07)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors Matthieu Patou (Oct 08)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors Joerg Mayer (Oct 21)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors Matthieu Patou (Oct 26)
- Re: Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors Matthieu Patou (Oct 27)