Re: [Ethereal-dev] MAPI. Exchange 5.5.

[Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Ulf Lamping wrote:

> Charles N Wyble wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> >     Hello. Let me introduce myself. My name is Charles Wyble. I am the
> > lead developer on the open source exchange replacement project. I am
> > working with lkcl (www.lkcl.net) on mapi and exchange reverse
> > enginering. I would like to take over maitenence of the mapi
> > dissector. Does any one have any objections to this? My website fyi is
> > http://www.thewybles.com/~charles . I am in the process of writing up
> > dociumenation on the whole exchange/mapi decode thing. Look for it
> > within the next few weeks :)
> >
> Hi Charles!
>
> The development model of Ethereal is: Someone (in this case you) are
> developing some extensions to an existing dissector (or creates a new
> one), and then creates and sends a patch to this list. One of the core
> developers (probably not me) will review the patch and check it into the
> subversion repository. However, it's always a good idea to ask this list
> (as you've done :-) so double effort will be reduced if someone else is
> working on the same topic.
>
> So patches are welcome :-)

Why don't you send them to me? Also, are you aware of Tim Potter's work to
auto-generate a dissector from IDL?

If you are working on generating the IDL, then Tim's work should help you
reduce the development cycle.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com