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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] DCERPC (idl2wrs & pidl)

From: Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 20:24:09 +0200
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Oct 10, 2014, at 5:08 AM, Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> i have a major question about idl2wrs and Pidl :
>> There is 2 different tools to generate Wireshark dissector for idl file :
>> * idl2wrs (in epan/dissectors/dcerpc folder)
>> * Pidl (in tools and epan/dissectors/pidl).
>>
>> Somebody known, why there is 2 tools ? (there is a plan to move to
>> first tools to a another ?)
>
> I think the move has already happened:
>
>         https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201306/msg00001.html
>
> "I say Delete it.
>
> It is the original proof of concept hack I did before we switched to PIDL.
>
> I abandoned this for PIDL in 2005  and should have deleted it then."
>
> ("it" being idl2wrs)

Hi Guy,

Thanks for information,
I try to convert idl2wrs dissector to Pidl... but need some works...