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

[Charles N Wyble <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Wow. I am impressed with the quick and informative response. See my 
comments inline.

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!
Afternoon.
> The development model of Ethereal is: Someone (in this case you)
nah. not me. my evil twin :)
 are
> developing some extensions to an existing dissector (or creates a new 
> one), and then creates and sends a patch to this list.
correct.
 One of the core
> developers (probably not me) will review the patch and check it into the 
> subversion repository.
cool. this is the usual way it works with open source projects.
 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.
right. i knew lkcl was doing some work in the area, but didn't think he 
had gotten to the ethereal portion.
> So patches are welcome :-)
i will see what i can cook up.
> If you are new to Ethereal development, you might have a look at the 
> Ethereal Developer's Guide at http://wiki.ethereal.com/Development 

thank you. i was un aware of this resource. i would reccomend a more
prominent display of it on the ethereal dev page. 
http://ethereal.com/development.html
> (which is incomplete and a bit windows focused as I've written it and I 
> only develop under Windows) and the file doc/README.developer.
yes. i have read the doc/README.developer file. thank you for the 
pointer though.
> Regards, ULFL
>
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