[ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

when  i change a dissector source file and type make   it takes only 56 seconds 
(i just timed it after changing packet-dtp.c) until i get the prompt
back and ethereal is rebuilt.
22 of those seconds are during making register.c

since my machine is a bit outdated and runs on a
not-anymore-very-mighty 900MHz AMD. (donations of modern day CPU's
welcome:-)

I am certain that most people will recompile ethereal as above in less
than 15 seconds.




On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 12:06:58 +0100, LEGO <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 16:06:37 +1100, ronnie sahlberg
> <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > do we need plugin support?   it is a serious question.
> > [snip]
> > so, in my experience,  plugin support does not provide any practical
> > benefit at all for maintainers of out-of-tree protocols which leads to
> > the quite serious question :  what is the benefit of plugin support?
> >
> 
> While not necessary I believe they are useful at least for one reason.
> 
> - They give a (much) faster compilation/intallation/testing cycle
>    "cd plugins/xxx && make && cp .libs/xxx.so ~/.ethereal/plugins"
> takes few secons
>    "make && sudo make install" takes two minutes or so
> 
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