There is still active development.
The docs, on the other hand, appear to have some issues, because there were two big changes in the past several months:
1) the LUA stuff was moved from the User's Guide to the Developer's Guide
2) the documentation system for Lua was changed from perl->XML->HTML to perl->AsciiDoc->HTML
Links to the docs got a bit screwed up due to (1) above, so some links will be dead until we get notified of them. (as you just did :)
I think what happened with link [3], which is of Chapter 10.4, is that the subsequent Chapters 10.6-10.18 used to be under/within Chapter 10.4 - i.e., they were Chapters 10.4.1-10.4.12 or whatever. That probably got screwed up due to (2) above. Although personally I kind of like the new structure, and Chapter 10.4 should probably just be deleted since it's now one sentence.
-hadriel
On Jan 13, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Stephan Arndt <arndt.stephan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm trying to write a dissector in Wireshark and want to use LUA for it.
> While trying to look for some documentation on how to get started, I got
> "mixed signals" on how much support there is for LUA within the
> wireshark community:
>
> On the plus side:
>
> There was this talk from Sharkfest '14 titled "Old & busted: C-code
> New-hotness: Lua", which puts LUA in a pretty good light for dissectors
> and also noted active developement on it in 1.11 and 1.12.
>
> But:
>
> There seems to be a lack of documentation, for example, the "Wireshark
> LUA API Reference Manual"[1] linked in the Wireshark Wiki on the LuaAPI
> page[2] is a 404, and the chapter[3] on LUA in the "Wireshark
> Developer's Guide"[4] is also non-existant.
>
>
> So after all, I wanted to know:
>
> Is LUA going to be supported in the future? Maybe even better than now?
> Or is it kind of deprecated, and not much used? As I said, I feel the
> signals are kind of mixed in this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stephan
>
>
> ------LINKS--------
> [1] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/wsluarm.html
> [2] http://wiki.wireshark.org/LuaAPI
> [3] https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/wsluarm_modules.html
> [4] https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/index.html
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