Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] On Copy as Filter

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From: didier <dgautheron@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:55:02 +0200
Hi,
Le dimanche 31 mai 2009 ￜ 11:56 +0200, Sake Blok a ￜcrit :
> Hi Jaap (& list),
> 
> As the "father" of the "copy as filter" functionality, I would vote for it 
> to be present all the time in the packet details pane (where I use it most). 
> Keeping track of all possible filters for the packet list pane seems like an 
> overkill to me and could be made optional to save memory. Or it should be 
> implemented in a way where it will dynamically be generated. For 1.2.0 I 
> would suggest to just revert the implemented memory-consuming patch and 
> disable the functionality in the packet-list. Then we can decide later to 
> make it either optional of write code that dynamically generate the filter 
> string on use (if that is at all possible).
Anyone remember why it was changed from dynamically generate?
The SVN log msg doesn't make sense to me.

Didier