Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] DCERPC (idl2wrs & pidl)

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:39:08 -0700
On Oct 10, 2014, at 5:08 AM, Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> i have a major question about idl2wrs and Pidl :
> There is 2 different tools to generate Wireshark dissector for idl file :
> * idl2wrs (in epan/dissectors/dcerpc folder)
> * Pidl (in tools and epan/dissectors/pidl).
> 
> Somebody known, why there is 2 tools ? (there is a plan to move to
> first tools to a another ?)

I think the move has already happened:

	https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201306/msg00001.html

"I say Delete it.

It is the original proof of concept hack I did before we switched to PIDL.

I abandoned this for PIDL in 2005  and should have deleted it then."

("it" being idl2wrs)