Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Library plans

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:15:39 -0400
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 09:56:33AM +0200, andreas.sikkema@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I'd like to modify the plugin API to use dissector tables and get rid of the
> > display-filter-based plugin API. Since I'm not a user of the plugins, what are
> > people's thoughts on that?
> 
> The fact that plugins used display filters always seemed to be a little 
> weird to me.

It was for historical reasons. Plugins pre-date the dissector tables.

--gilbert