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.
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
