[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 20, 2003, at 4:40 PM, Bryan Henderson wrote:

> I think people would find ethereal easier to work with on lots of
> different levels if 1) the source tree directory structure were 
> deepened a
> little;

Somebody (I forget who) was, as I remember, thinking about doing that.

>  2) the executable loaded dissectors dynamically as needed;

Fine, as long as we don't have any platforms we care about where GLib 
doesn't support run-time loading.

Note also that not all dissectors are self-contained entities, so we 
might, in some cases, have multiple dissectors bundled into a single 
loadable module.

> and 3) the filter descriptions were in a separate file, or even a 
> whole tree.

That's already been done in CVS, if by "file" you mean "man page file".