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Re: [Wireshark-dev] Filter for generated items

From: Stephen Fisher <steve_at_nospam>
Date: Tue Nov 16 2010 - 18:05:09 GMT
To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org>

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:37:32PM +0100, Helge Kruse wrote:

> > You're right, there should be little reason for plugins not to work
> > in newer maintenance releases of stable branches. Otherwise we're
> > not doing things right.

> Well, the 0.99.x was not a stable branch,

Correct.

> Is it guaranteed that a 1.2.x plugin runs with Wireshark 1.4.x?

Jaap and Joerg are referring to the same stable branch, so any newer
version of 1.2.x than the one you compiled with (or newer 1.4.x than the
one you compiled it with). This makes sense because only important bug
fixes are moved from the development back into the newer stable branches
and no new features. I just didn't think we were verifying that bug
fixes never broke the ABI, although I can see why they never or at least
rarely would.

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