Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] dynamicly loading dissectors

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From: Bryan Henderson <hbryan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:26:09 -0700
>I originally had about 10 dissectors written as plugins but
>was asked to change them to static dissectors because some OSs
>don't support plugins.

For that and other reasons, it should be a build-time option to build them 
all in.  Where the configurator determines that the system can't do 
plugins, it would build them all in by default; otherwise, it would make 
them pluggable by default.