Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-announce] Ethereal 0.9.2 released

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:00:57 -0800
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:22:08PM +0100, andreas.sikkema@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I will, but now I have to force my users to use a different interface for
> a while.

"Use a different interface" in what sense?

The name of the dissector won't be exposed in the UI, so how would the
name affect what the users use?

> > The dissector ABI may well change in the next release, so you're likely
> > to have to come up with a new version of the plugin for the next release
> > in any case.
> 
> The plugin abi, or the dissector function parameters, (tvb, pinfo etc) or
> proto_item_* functions?

Some or all of them.  The plugin ABI includes the calling sequences to
all functions exported to plugins.