Hi, Main reason would be startup time. It takes time to load and parse these (Big!) files every time you start up. Yes, they do change/get amended, therefore we update them for the releases as long as they are maintained. That should be good enough. It’s a best effort compromise, IMHO.
Thanks, Jaap > On 15 Feb 2017, at 14:46, Peter Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > While many protocols have fixed value_string mappings, some of them are > quite dynamic (USB Vendor/Product IDs, "enterprise-numbers" (sminmpec), > services, etc.). > > Has there ever been an attempt to load these from file? This has the > benefit that these files can be updated without having to > rebuild/install a new version of Wireshark. (Additional benefits: the > data can be compressed and ignored from Lintian spell-checking.) > -- > Kind regards, > Peter Wu > https://lekensteyn.nl ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
