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Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Autogenerated files in source tree [Was: asn2wrs problem]

From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 23:36:24 +0200
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 02:24:05PM -0700, Pascal Quantin wrote:
> Yeah that's my fault: I did some API change yesterday and did not realize
> that CREDSSP was an autogenerated dissector. I will fix this in a few
> minutes.

OK, which brings me back to the topic that we should have as few autogenerated
dissectors in our source tree as possible. I don't think the additional compile
time qualifies as a counter argument, and phython is required to build Wireshark
as well.

So why keep doing that? If it's OK, I'd like to do a PoC patch for asn1.

For those instances where we want to keep the generated dissectors in the source
tree: Is there a way to prevent accidental changes (i.e. opening the file not at
the top but at a given line or automated search/replace scripts? Does setting these
files to read only look like a possible solution?

> Sorry about that,

No problem - I was just testing the new old cmake asn1 generation and it
gave me the opportunity to once again start this discussion ;-)
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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