Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Patch for better finding of plugins under Win32

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 07:41:20 -0500
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:18:38 Guy Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:36:21AM +0200, Dr.-Ing. Gerrit Gehnen wrote:
> > since using the Win32-installer for ethereal all users of non-english
> > versions of Windows are facing the problem, that the installer installs
> > ethereal under the standard program file location, but ethereal uses
> > a hardcoded path for the plugin folder.
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> Does anybody happen to know why Ethereal on *UNIX* has, hardcoded into
> it, "/usr/lib/ethereal/plugins/{version}" and
> "/usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/{version}", rather than just searching
> in PLUGIN_DIR?

I think it's just a mistake.

--gilbert