On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> The SMB dissector was completely rewritten from scratch, by hand, around
> October/November
> 2001. I know this since I did this. No tools involved.
> After this there has been many many enhancements that just can not be
> described in a packet language
> making the dissector what it is today.
Yes, this is correct.
> See CVS log for a large number og 5000-6000 line checkins during this
> timeframe.
>
> The SMB dissector prior to October 2001 was partially generated by a tool.
That is correct. After a while it just got too hard to maintain the tool,
so I and others took to modifying the code by hand.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John McDermott"
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Ethereal Gripe
>
>
> >
> > I know Richard was thinking about this a few years ago
> > (http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/199907/msg00129.html). What
> > ever happened to the "6000 lines of code", Richard? IIRC you built the
> > SMB stuff with this PDL.
> >
>
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
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