| From: Guy Harris | | On Nov 21, 2003, at 1:59 PM, Biot Olivier wrote: | | Perhaps the preference name should be changed as well, although, if | that's done, either | | 1) "prefs.c" should be changed to map the old name to | the new name | | or | | 2) a mechanism should be added to "prefs.c" to allow | aliases to be | registered by dissectors for preference names and that | mechanism should | be used to map the old name to the new name.
Or we may include versioning information to a preference, so we know when it is introduced (or removed or renamed). This will be required in cases where a preference is created, then removed, then created again but with another meaning given to it. Another thing we may want to do in addition to the versioning of preferences, is provide a "preference scrubber", that gets rid of old preferences. Regards, Olivier
