Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] 0.10.10 next week?

[Lars Roland <lars.roland@xxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris schrieb:
> ronnie sahlberg wrote:
>
> > why not call it 1.0 
>
>
> Because I don't want somebody to complain when I change the way strings 
> are handled so that we can cope with strings in messages being in 
> various character sets?
>
> Calling it 1.0 is fine, I guess, as long aa the internal API for 
> dissectors, etc. can still change without people having any chance to 
> complain that their old plugins no longer work.  (Yes, I know, some 
> people are *already* hoping to build plugins that work with multiple 
> releases.)
I am just preparing removal of the old plugin api.
When dropping the old api, everybody with private plugins will have to apply 
some small changes.

I am already at commiting a patch, which will do the final preparation. The 
patch introduces a warning for plugins which haven't been updated, yet. The old 
api and support for plugins using it, will be dropped in another small patch later.

I suggest to add the first patch now, so it gets into 0.10.10 and add the second 
patch, which will drop the old api, after release 0.10.10. After dropping the 
old api, we should move on to either 1.0 or 0.11.0.

Regards,
Lars