RE: [ethereal-dev] Re:

[Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At 05:46 PM 7/5/99 -0400, "Farley, Tim (ISSAtlanta)" <TFarley@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 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.

OK, the argument seems to be about whether or not it needs to be a run-time
interpreter, or a build-time decoder production system.

At the moment, I am focussed on a build-time system, but I now tend to
agree, after seeing Laurent's posting about binary distributions, like the
Linux world that I live in, that a run-time interpreter may be needed.

More thought is needed.

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Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx, NS Computer Software and Services P/L,
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