Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] reorganizing source tree

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From: Bryan Henderson <hbryan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:52:10 -0800
OK, looking at the various input on the list, it looks to me like the 
proper thing to do is to put the dissectors in epan/dissectors.  I prefer 
that to earlier suggestions of epan/packet because the actual packet 
processor is more than the dissectors, and includes most notably the 
existing file epan/packet.c.  To be precise, what I'm calling dissectors 
is those files in the top level directory that start with "packet-".  And 
in the new dissectors directory, they would have the redundant "packet-" 
stripped off.

Any objections to this?

A secondary question, then, is whether the dissector directory should be 
decomposed further.  It will take me a while to make a proposal about 
that, because I have to investigate all the interrelationships between the 
packet- files.

Would it be OK to move everything into the new single-level directory and 
address further decomposition later?  Or would it be better to do it all 
at once if we're going to do it?