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
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