Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5725] Changes to Packet EPL, to allow inclusion of packet-

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:08:55 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5725

Roland Knall <rknall@xxxxxxxxx> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
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--- Comment #10 from Roland Knall <rknall@xxxxxxxxx> 2011-03-14 06:08:53 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > (In reply to comment #7)
> > > What I will do here is the following. As Powerlink is a similair protocol as
> > > SercosIII and Profinet, both of which are implemented as plugins, I will remove
> > > both dissectors from the "normal" dissectors, and move them into a plugin. 
> > 
> > In fact the general direction with Wireshark has been the opposite: to get rid
> > of plugins and make them all built-in dissectors.  I don't remember all the
> > reasons, but personally I dislike plugins because of all the overhead each one
> > requires (e.g., requiring so many files per dissector) and the fact that (GNU)
> > "make -j <N>" doesn't compile them in parallel.
> 
> Ok, sorry, did not know that. In that case, I will merge both dissectors in
> epan.

Merging the dissectors is not useful, as it will complicate maintenance. But
both header files can go, see #5751 for more details.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5751 ***

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