Re: RFD: Creating subdirectories in epan/dissectors/

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>]

Evan Huus wrote:
> I've never understood why they're all prefixed with packet- anyways,
> the fact that they're in epan/dissectors should be enough?

Because they were originally in the top-level directory (!, at least 
until you consider how few dissectors Wireshark^WEthereal originally 
had).  They were "stuck" there until the CVS->SVN migration which 
allowed the files to be moved while keeping their history.

I have occasionally wondered whether we should strip off the "packet-" 
part, but I think I've just gotten used to it.  It does sorta make it 
obvious from just the file name (excluding the path information) that 
it's a dissector (except for "packet-range.*" in the top-level 
directory, hmmm).

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