Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: MGCP update

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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 16:53:35 +0200 (CEST)
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Ulf Lamping wrote:

> Martin Mathieson wrote:
>
> > I must admit, editing that file made me feel dirty.
> Keep your fingers clean (at least before dinner), that's what my mother
> used to say ;-)
>
> I don't know that specific file, but  I know a lot of Ethereal source
> files in desperate need of a cleanup.
>
> > I can't think of any reason for mgcp to be a plugin.  In fact, other
> > than to help maintain the plugin api I'm not sure why any of the
> > dissectors in svn are plugins.
> >
> plugins are quite helpful when doing "distributed development" of a
> dissector (and of the depending protocol), where often changes are done
> and has to be distributed across a limited user base, which should maybe
> not being part of the Ethereal release.

So we should expect to see changesets on the list moving the current
plugins to epan/dissectors one by one....

Jaap