On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 4:06 PM, Markus Leballeux
<markus.leballeux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Pascal,
>
> That question makes a lot of sense actually. You are correct, Wireshark and
> Wirebait don't use the same version of Lua and I can think of 2 kinds of
> compatibility "challenges":
>
> Compatibility between Wireshark and Wirebait: Wireshark and Wirebait never
> interact with each other. Wirebait is only used when you run your dissector
> without Wireshark, so Wireshark never even loads Wirebait code.
> Compatibility between a plugin developed with Wirebait and Wireshark: your
> point was probably that someone could write a plugin using syntax only
> available in 5.3. This is definitely possible, which is why a 5.2 version is
> on the back burner. I have used 5.3 for convenience, and at this stage of
> the project I don't think this is going to be a big issue. If you are aware
> of the syntactic differences, you can write a 5.2 compatible dissector and
> run it on Wirebait 5.3.
I have no contribution to these issues. However, I think the name
'sharkbait' would be a catchier name :-)
--
Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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