Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] packet-*.[ch] file movement imminent

[Lars Roland <Lars.Roland@xxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping schrieb:
> Joerg Mayer wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 10:06:24PM -0500, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > Now that subversion is in place for SCM, I've prepared a patch which 
> > > moves the packet-*.[ch] files from the top-level directory to a 
> > > directory named "epan/dissectors". I've changed the Makefile.nmake's, 
> > > but I have no resource to test on Win32.
> > >   
> >
> >
> > Could you strip the leading packet- from the filenames while you are 
> > at it?
> >
> > ciao
> >   Joerg
> >
> >  
> Is this really a good idea?
>
> We have a lot of files with the actual dissectors (prefix packet-) and 
> some other helper files at the same level without it.
>
> If you remove the prefixes, you cannot distinguish between real 
> dissectors and helper files.
>
> But I don't know if this difference is essential, both approaches would 
> be ok for me.
>
> Regards, ULFL
I would like to have dissector sources and dissector-helper sources 
moved to epan/dissectors to make life and nmake makefiles easier.
Thus I'd like to have our naming convention for dissectors kept.

Regards, Lars.