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

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From: Ashok Narayanan <ashokn@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:07:38 -0500
Doesn't that force us to do something like 0.10.55 if we don't update
the plugin API for some time?

More useful would be some sort of plugin API versioning that would
automatically refuse to load plugins if the API version isn't right.

-Ashok

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:57:39PM +0100, Lars Roland wrote:
> Joerg Mayer schrieb:
> >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.
> >
> Good idea,
> I like that.
> 
> Regards,
> Lars
> 
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