What I'm hoping this change can do is open up better optimizations in proto.c I don't know enough to know how/what those optimizations could be, I just saw proto_tree_add_text as a roadblock. We still have a few other "text node" APIs if that is the holdup, but I think they would be more straightforward to replace (and far less in number than proto_tree_add_text ever was).
-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Michael Mann <mmann78@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, Sep 21, 2015 10:05 am
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] The journey of a thousand miles...
I've +2ed it but I'll let you do the honours. I think we all owe you a
beer now
:)
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 10:48 PM, <mmann78@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
begins with a single step - Lao Tzu
>
>
> The thousand mile journey has been
completed as all proto_tree_add_text
> calls within the Wireshark source have
been converted to a "better" API.
> Because they have been converted, I think
proto_tree_add_text should be
> removed from the Wireshark API. To me there
has been enough notice given
> and 2.0 looks like a good place to make the
clean break (I was worried the
> conversion wasn't going to be finished in
time). Since the mailing list has
> more eyes than Gerrit, I thought I'd send
this notice in case there are
> objections, which can be handled here or in the
patch that removes the API
> (https://code.wireshark.org/review/10594/). I am
personally not in favor of
> keeping it around just for third-party
dissectors.
>
> convert_proto_tree_add_text.pl will remain and I will gladly
answer any
> questions people have (either email -dev or me directly). The
initial
> description of convert_proto_tree_add_text.pl can be found here:
>
https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201307/msg00073.html. There
>
have been more "features" added since, but the process to follow hasn't
>
changed - run it once to generate the list of proto_tree_add_text calls and
>
its "best guess" at what the conversion should be and then a second pass
> over
the tool's output to do search/replace of the proto_tree_add_text calls
> with
the data provided.
>
>
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