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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Different wireshark behaviour on Linux as on Windows

From: Chris Maynard <chris.maynard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:14:53 +0000 (UTC)
Roland Knall <rknall@...> writes:

> On Linux, when the gtk-based filehandler loads the list of plugins, it
> does so alphabetically. This does not seem to be the case on Windows.
> So here, someone might argue, that this indeed is plattform-specific,
> and not exactly a bug. You would have to sort the plugin load list to
> fix it.

Would this really fix the underlying problem though, i.e., sorting first?  I
mean, if you want the opensafety plugin to be loaded before the sercosiii
plugin, it does, but what if you want the reverse?