Hi, Well, in a perfect world this scheme would work. Unfortunately..... So how do we help a user with an 'inperfect' plugin developer? Could the whole range of runtime DLL's help? I guess not, mixing runtimes doesn't sound like a plan. Check DLL dependancies? Could help if we can detect a mismatch and popup a warning. The least we can do is help discovery of a mismatch.
Thanx, Jaap On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Ulf Lamping wrote: > > > > I can see version hell on the horizon.... :/ > > Would it be wise to add the compiler version to the plugin version > > resource? If time permits I'll start looking into it tonight. > > > > sort of... > > It's like the problem with our current plugin mechanism in general, a plugin > build for a different Wireshark version may or may not run. > > Basically it's up to the plugin developer/user to make sure that a specific > plugin works with the Wireshark version (and now compiler version as well) in > use. > > Fortunately, if the plugin is cleanly implemented - doesn't hand over or get > file handles (and alike C-runtime resources) from other parts / plugins of > Wireshark, this plugin should work well with Wireshark versions compiled with > a different compiler version. > > In any case, the plugin developer is responsible to provide the proper C > runtime dll (e.g. msvcr80.dll in this example) along with his plugin. I > really don't tend to install all possible msvcr*.dll versions (7.0, 7.1, 8.0, > 9.0) together with the installer - just as a precaution that a plugin > developer might need to use it. > > So the question is not how to detect such a "version conflict", but more of > what to actually do in that case! Do we want to warn the user in this case > "you are using a plugin ..." or even disallow the usage of the plugin, > although it *might* work perfectly? > > Regards, ULFL > > P.S: The only problematic C runtime resource we use seems to be file handles, > and this - at least - can be documented to be carefully used in plugins. > _____________________________________________________________________ > Der WEB.DE SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! > http://smartsurfer.web.de/?mc=100071&distributionid=000000000066 > > _______________________________________________ > Wireshark-dev mailing list > Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org > http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev > > _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
