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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark PIDL generated dissectors

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 13:57:12 -0700
On Oct 3, 2013, at 8:04 PM, ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There is very little overlap between samba needs and wireshark needs for PIDL.
> It is probably better to continue running two separate forks of PIDL,
> one for samba and one for wireshark.
> 
> Switching to samba PIDL seems to be a lot of work for miniscule gain.
> And who will do the work?

Are you referring to forking PIDL, the language, or to forking PIDL, the tool that translates PIDL-the-language descriptions into code for {Samba,Wireshark,...}?