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

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From: Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 14:15:47 +0000
On Saturday 05 Mar 2005 5:06 am, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> do we need plugin support?   it is a serious question.
>
> the plugin api changes rapidly enough to cause pain and very frequent
> recompilations for people maintaining out-of-tree dissectors/plugins
> for several for-the-public-uninteresting or weirdo protocols.
> i use several of those myself.

I have a private plugin that has needed re-compilation once and patching 
once since 0.8.x. Removing the API would cause me significant pain.

-- 
Richard Urwin