Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Filter for generated items
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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:57:13 +0100
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:01:33AM -0700, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 07:36:46AM +0100, Helge Kruse wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for fixing. But since I need to deploy the DLL to existing 
> > Wireshark installations, this would not help in this case. I cannot 
> > force to install a specific version of Wireshark just to support my 
> > dissector.
> 
> Please note that plugins are not guaranteed to work on any version of 
> Wireshark other than the one it was compiled for.  Sometimes they work 
> on different versions, but other times they fail (sometimes in strange 
> ways) because of changes to the core Wireshark functions.

I thought that ABI compatibility within a stable release should
be guaranteed except for emergency (security) fixes. That means if
a plugins works with 1.2.7 it can be expected to work for 1.2.8 up to
the last 1.2.x release ever. Did I miss something?

Ciao
 Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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