Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Plugin for Cisco ISL

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:35:15 -0800
> This raises an issue - do we have any policy on when stuff should be a
> plugin?

I'd say something might want to be done as a plugin if:

	1) it's a secret protocol that somebody wants to have Ethereal
	   dissect, and they can't give the dissector away (I think that
	   was Olivier's motivation for adding the plugin mechanism) -
	   making it a plugin means they don't have to maintain a private
	   version of Ethereal;

	2) it's a specialized protocol, e.g. the Gryphon protocol.

The latter is the only case where the plugin would be distributed as
part of Ethereal, so that's probably the only place that applies to the
policy question.