Re: Feedback on Developer's Guide 3.3.0

[Pascal Quantin <pascal () wireshark org>]

Hi David,

Le mer. 19 févr. 2020 à 17:47, Boyce, David <David.Boyce () viasat com> a
écrit :

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I notice that the developer’s guide does not appear to have any Wireshark
> C API Reference Manual equivalent to the Lua API Reference Manual of
> Chapter 11.  Given that 1.4.1 emphasises that ‘(almost) any dissector is
> written in plain old ANSI C’, this seems to be a strange omission.  Is
> there a good reason for this?

You have a lot of documentation in the doc/ folder of the Wireshark source
code. I guess the fact that it is located here and not in the developer's
guide is a mix of legacy and that, to build a C dissector, you need to have
Wireshark source code anyway (which is not the case for Lua).

Best regards,
Pascal.

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