Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] plugins version-subdirectory: Why?

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:38:27 +0100
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:24:36PM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> After updating to Ethereal 0.10.10 (which let's say have some 
> incompatible binary changes) this plugin is still in the plugin dir and 
> not updated by the installer (because it's a private plugin).
> 
> When you now start Ethereal, it will crash unexpectedly, not telling you 
> anything about the cause.

That's why I proposed the following numbering change:
The directory should be called 0.10 for ethereal version 0.10.x
In case of a not backward compatible change to the plugin API, the
Ethereal version should be increased to 0.11.x. It's just that
nobody ever reacted to it.

 ciao
  Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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