> -----Original Message----- > From: wireshark-dev-boun...@wireshark.org [mailto:wireshark-dev- > boun...@wireshark.org] On Behalf Of Evan Huus > Sent: 30 August 2012 14:31 > To: Developer support list for Wireshark > Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] RFD: Creating subdirectories in > epan/dissectors/ > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Roland Knall <rkn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > > > Would you like to enforce a value for the minimum number of subsequent > > files in the subdirectories? > > I would assume you'd need 5 or 6 files at least to make a folder worthwhile, > but I don't think that's a hard rule. None of the groups proposed for the initial > run have less than 14. > > > As I wrote the opensafety package, I would like to split it up a > > little bit to make it more maintainable, as well as include two new > > subdissectors, which use the openSAFETY protocol, but are not > > necessarily part of it. > > For the subdissectors, it depends on how tightly they are bound to > opensafety. If they could theoretically be carried on other protocols as well > then they shouldn't be grouped with it, but if they are restricted to > opensafety (in the sense that they use some special fields or features of > opensafety and so actually couldn't be carried on, say, TCP, without changing > the protocol), then they can logically be grouped with it. Again, probably not > a hard rule, but a good guideline. > [Graham Bloice said]
Some folks have articulated the drawbacks (to them) of making these changes but I haven't seen any actual advantages listed. Can anyone list them as they see it? ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe