On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Steve Karg <skarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Joerg,
>
> [snip]
>> What I'd like to do is put these dissectors that belong *to a single protocol*
>> into a subdirectory of that name, i.e. move them to
> [snip]
>> xmpp/packet-other.c
>> xmpp/packet-other.h
>> xmpp/packet-utils.c
>> xmpp/packet-utils.h
>
> These kind of file names could be in every protocol...
>
>> What do you think?
>
> Based on experience with another open source C project where I did
> segregate files into sub-folders and tried to simplify the file names
> by utilizing sub-directories, you will likely have file naming
> conflicts between protocols if you remove the protocol name from the
> file. C file names must be unique in the build (for most compilers
> and linkers that I have used).
Hmmm... why not do something more like:
xmpp/xmpp-other.c
xmpp/xmpp-other.h
xmpp/xmpp-utils.c
xmpp/xmpp-utils.h
I've never understood why they're all prefixed with packet- anyways,
the fact that they're in epan/dissectors should be enough?
Cheers,
Evan