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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Renaming some value-string API functions

From: Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:50:42 -0400
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/22/2013 09:35 PM, Evan Huus wrote:
>> As proposed and discussed in bug #8467. Any objections?
>>
>> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8467
>
> Took some digging to find the rationale here:
> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8461#c12

Yes, sorry, forgot that it started on another bug.

> Besides what's written there, don't forget about the *_ext interfaces here.
> Oh, and _all_ documentation / code samples, etc.

That's what global search+replace is for :) It won't pick up wiki
articles but it should get README.dev and others.

> I get the idea, but we're wondering into parser territory here. It might be a
> whole can-o-worms.

Not sure what you mean? Just renaming a few functions, nothing parser-related?

Evan