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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 9940] Accept pure Lua dissector in Wireshark mainstream

Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:16:00 +0000

Comment # 4 on bug 9940 from
(In reply to comment #3)

>> An alternative approach is to do what many other apps do: have a mechanism to
>> find/retrieve/install/update/remove third-party plugins from a common
>> repository site.  That way the plugins themselves aren't part of the
>> application package and aren't officially maintained by the core application
>> developers, but instead are maintained by the third-parties (or not, and they
>> die off, which isn't a bad thing either).  Many good text editors/IDEs do
>> that, for example, as do browsers, etc.  Some even do it with the ability to
>> pull plugins from github directly, instead of storing the plugins in their own
>> site.
> 
> This aproach proposed by Hadriel Kaplan may be the best:

Yes, I think so too.
If pure Lua dissector should not be added,
I will submit a new feature request of this approach to another bugzilla.


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