On Dec 19, 2010, at 10:37 PM, news.gmane.com wrote:
> Well, that meens, any dissector DLL that uses this function stops working
> with the next revision of libwireshark.dll
We have never guaranteed that a dissector built for Wireshark major version 1.x will work with the development version 1.{x+1} or the next major release 1.{x+2}. We only guarantee that a dissector built for 1.x will work with 1.x.y, i.e. that stability will be preserved for all minor releases corresponding to a given major release.
> I hope the new function names become stable, so that someday a Wireshark API
> can be defined.
It takes more than just stable function names for a stable API. It requires that:
for any function, its signature not change (no added or removed parameters);
no function be removed;
no incompatible change to any arguments for a function be made.
