Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] preferences for plugins when you don't have the plugin...

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 14:39:52 -0800
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 08:30:18AM -0600, Neulinger, Nathan R. wrote:
> It appears this generates a warning.

Only if you actually have entries in your "preferences" file for that
plugin's preferences.  If you never had that plugin on your system, you
shouldn't have entries in your "preferences" file for it.

> I think that this shouldn't generate a warning, or the 'plugin preferences'
> should be placed in a separate preferences file, or something like that.

The plugin preferences are, as far as the preferences code is concerned,
no different from the preferences for non-plugin dissectors - which, as
far as I'm concerned, is as it should be; plugins *aren't* supposed to
be radically different from other dissectors - so neither of those can
be done by the preferences code.