Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7466] Plugin statistics menu items no longer appear in 1.8
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Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:25:55 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7466

--- Comment #4 from Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-07-15 12:25:55 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Committed revision 43726. Should be backported to 1.8.1 but due to the changes
> to libwireshark.def it breaks the API I suppose.

*Adding* exported routines to a library doesn't break the API or ABI; code that
doesn't call that routine will continue to work as well (or as poorly) as it
did before the routine was added.  The *minor* version of libwireshark should
be changed, as programs that *do* call it won't work with *older* versions of
libraries.

This does, however, raise the question of why it *matters* whether a tap is a
plugin or not.  The user has no reason to care, and it should be possible to
make a plugin tap a built-in tap, or *vice versa*, with as little change as
possible.

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