RE: [ethereal-dev] Re:

["Farley, Tim (ISSAtlanta)" <TFarley@xxxxxxx>]

>> I was already thinking about the handling of user-defined protocols in
>> a similar way but with direct processing in ethereal (no code generation
>> and so no recompilation - see some previous posts in mailing list).

>Given that we are an Open-Source project and the source code will
>always be available for compilation, is this really useful? 

Yes.

Not everyone who uses Ethereal (or products like it) is necessarily a C
programmer.  Being able to add functionality without writing code would
greatly broaden the appeal of Ethereal.

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