On 11/16/2010 02:57 AM, Joerg Mayer wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:01:33AM -0700, Stephen Fisher wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 07:36:46AM +0100, Helge Kruse wrote: >> >>> Thank you for fixing. But since I need to deploy the DLL to existing >>> Wireshark installations, this would not help in this case. I cannot >>> force to install a specific version of Wireshark just to support my >>> dissector. >> >> Please note that plugins are not guaranteed to work on any version of >> Wireshark other than the one it was compiled for. Sometimes they work >> on different versions, but other times they fail (sometimes in strange >> ways) because of changes to the core Wireshark functions. > > I thought that ABI compatibility within a stable release should > be guaranteed except for emergency (security) fixes. That means if > a plugins works with 1.2.7 it can be expected to work for 1.2.8 up to > the last 1.2.x release ever. Did I miss something? > > Ciao > Joerg
Hi, You're right, there should be little reason for plugins not to work in newer maintenance releases of stable branches. Otherwise we're not doing things right. Thanks, Jaap ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
