On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:33:16AM -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote: > James Carlson wrote: > >OK. Should we just not support developers, or would those bits be > >more effective as separate packages? > > My thoughts are that anyone wishing to add to wireshark in the form of > plugins, etc, will probably grab the source and compile it themselves, > so shipping the development tools is probably not terribly useful.
If Wireshark (getting used to not saying "Ethereal" is difficult) has a plug-in interface with a stability that suitably matches our needs then we should expose it, no? I wouldn't mind having a Wireshark plug-in interface that is Volatile and can break on patch -- the difference between forcing a developer to get and build their own copy of Wireshark (and re-build their plug-ins any time they update that) and forcing them to re-build their plug-ins every time we update Wireshark in patch/micro/minor Solaris releases seems rather minor to me. Nico --
