Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] plugins version-subdirectory: Why?

[Lars Roland <lars.roland@xxxxxxx>]

Joerg Mayer schrieb:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:24:36PM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
>
> > After updating to Ethereal 0.10.10 (which let's say have some 
> > incompatible binary changes) this plugin is still in the plugin dir and 
> > not updated by the installer (because it's a private plugin).
> >
> > When you now start Ethereal, it will crash unexpectedly, not telling you 
> > anything about the cause.
>
>
> That's why I proposed the following numbering change:
> The directory should be called 0.10 for ethereal version 0.10.x
> In case of a not backward compatible change to the plugin API, the
> Ethereal version should be increased to 0.11.x. It's just that
> nobody ever reacted to it.
Good idea,
I like that.

Regards,
Lars