On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:10:53PM +0200, Antoine Gardiol - FiveCo wrote:
> I understand that backward compatibility is hard to keep, but when we
> thought about plugins, we understand plug(&play)in(the software) no ?
> My point of view is that backward compatibility should be kept for plugins
> and could be broken for embedded disectors.
No. Plugins are mostly a way to provide faster development cycles and to
enable companies to *internally* provide binary only extensions without
having to create a special Wireshark version (you cannot provide binary
only plugins to external customers without providing them with the
source as well in case they request it).
ciao
Joerg
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Joerg Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
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