Hi,
I'm
not sure if we want to convert all plugins to builtin ones but the asn1 plugin
should stay as a plugin and I would think at least one more
simple
one as
a plugin example.
More
comments any one?
Regards
Anders
Why would a plugin dissector ever be better than a builtin? I see
"development speed" mentioned as a plus, but isn't the lack of "platform
independent code" a much greater detriment?
Is there any reason why the current plugins couldn't be converted to
built-in dissectors? I dove in and converted some of the simpler ones
(thanks to Anders for the integration), but before I try and tackle the harder
ones, I wanted to make sure there wasn't something I'm missing about the
process. To me it mostly looks like files need to be moved and makefiles
need to be modified. Not a hard task, but a somewhat
tedious.
So far the only issue I've seen is that some of the
"more complex" plug-ins have "subdissectors" each in there own file, but usually
not that much code. As Roland noted in
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5990#c2,
there is understandably some desire to keep the number of dissector files to a
minimum. Does that just turn into "developer preference"?
Mike Mann