Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Moving codecs to libwireshark or libwsutil?

[Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>]

2015-11-30 20:15 GMT+01:00 Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On Nov 30, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> Yes I should have been clearer in my initial description.
> My suggestion with an extra parameter giving the hash table address is also working fine, so I do not have a strong feeling either way (the changed parameter is faster to do but might not be the best long term solution).

Unless there's some compelling reason for them *not* to be in a dynamic library, I think making libcodec a dynamic library the best long-term solution.

> If possible I would like to have this fixed for Wireshark 2.0.1 but I wonder if such change is compatible with our usual policy to keep APIs constant (does it apply when they are buggy?).

Making it a dynamic library wouldn't change the API.

Done: https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/12385/1