[Graham Bloice said]
Some folks have articulated the drawbacks (to them) of making these
changes but I haven't seen any actual advantages listed. Can anyone list
them as they see it?
Well I used to work on packet-dcm for a while, and considering myself a
novice, it was painful to find 'my' files after all the packet-dcep....
Try to type the filename in the directory. If you don't get all 10
character right, you're off. So for me it would have been a benefit to
take the big ones out to allow typing in the file explorer.
>> fold into one large file
I really hate the 3100 lines of protocol definitions in packet-dcm.c ,
but since i didn't consider the protocol that important, I never dared
to ask for a 2nd .c file. And comments were not that friendly, when I
had it in the include file.
In addition, I also don't see the benefit in the 'packet-' prefix.
And since we are at it, the 'epan' directory for sure makes sense to all
those working on the framework, but for me as a dissector contributor,
it's just a deeper hierarchy.
David
