Jeff Morriss wrote: > Joerg Mayer wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 06:00:00PM +0800, Jeff Morriss wrote: >> >>> I did this once a while ago and found figuring out how to actually make >>> a dissector into a "new style" dissector wasn't all that easy, mainly >>> because I couldn't find which (of the hundreds) of dissectors did it >>> already so I didn't know where to look for an example and the >>> README.developer didn't contain any info about it. >>> >> I started to write a readme for that once and abandoned it, because >> while new-style dissectors are a good idea - the way it was done has >> some room for improvements. >> > > But what we are left with is a situation where every newcomer who writes > a new dissector on TCP is immediately asked to convert it to a "new > style" dissector without any documentation as to how... Not very > encouraging to those people. > FULL ACK. > BTW, I was about to ask what's wrong with the current system when I saw > this message which I suppose outlines most of it: > > http://www.wireshark.org/lists/ethereal-dev/200512/msg03512.html > > So we are all agree that this should be changed. Could someone write a patch for README.developer?
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