[ethereal-dev] Generating code and protocol description language

[Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I had a meeting with Andrew Tridgell last night (Thursday, ACT time) and
showed him Ethereal.

He was impressed with Ethereal, and we talked about auto-generating
protocol display modules and other things based on a protocol description
language.

He encouraged me to release the protocol description modules I have and the
perl script generator, which I agree I should do.

He also encouraged me to keep working on this idea and contributed some
specific ideas that looke interesting, so I will do that.

I hope to clean things up over the next week and contribute the 6000 or so
lines of code that I have now generated for SMB decodes as well.



Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx, NS Computer Software and Services P/L,
Samba (Team member www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours