Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Next Release: Win32 NSIS installer pendingquestions

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 4, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Olivier Biot wrote:

> From: "Guy Harris"
> | At least for color filters, there are both user and system-wide
> color
> | filters; would a default color filters file be a user file or a
> | system-wide file?
>
> Definitely!

Well, yes, a default color filter file should definitely either be a 
user file or a system-wide file, given that, at least in Ethereal as it 
currently exists, it *has* to be one of those.

My question, however, was "which one of those should it be?", which is 
a question for which "yes" (or "definitely") isn't a valid answer. :-)

> Display filters change over time, so we really need to verify that the
> default ones remain valid when upgrading (this also applies to color
> filters). Maybe we'll have to provide a script that replaces outdated
> protocol and field names with the new ones. As a matter of fact, this
> also applies to preferences.

For preferences, that shouldn't be done in a script, it should be done 
in "prefs.c" - there's a large chunk of code in "prefs.c" to do exactly 
that.