Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal and H.323 dissector possible license solution

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:26:13 -0400
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 03:21:23PM +0200, andreas.sikkema@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I wonder if we shouldn't move to making the core part of ethereal, including
> > plugins support, into a shared library. On Win32, once we have the stub
> > library, you should be able to make an Ethereal plugin which can see the
> > exported symbols of this DLL, obviating the need for a function pointer
> > table. That is, if my understanding of Win32 DLL's is correct.
> 
> Why do I have the feeling that this is a dirty and clean hack at the 
> same time? :-)

Yep. "clean" in that I've wanted to move the core ethereal routines
into a shared library for a while.

"dirty" in that the impetus right now is to get Win32 plugins working
better. :)

--gilbert