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Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Loading value_string from file?

From: Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 14:46:41 +0100
Hi,

While many protocols have fixed value_string mappings, some of them are
quite dynamic (USB Vendor/Product IDs, "enterprise-numbers" (sminmpec),
services, etc.).

Has there ever been an attempt to load these from file? This has the
benefit that these files can be updated without having to
rebuild/install a new version of Wireshark. (Additional benefits: the
data can be compressed and ignored from Lintian spell-checking.)
-- 
Kind regards,
Peter Wu
https://lekensteyn.nl