Thanks for the quick answer! I'm glad to hear that it's just because of restructuring that the links went missing!
I'll have a look at it all today, thanks for fixing the links! Regards Stephan Am 13.01.2015 um 20:56 schrieb Hadriel Kaplan: > > There is still active development. > > The docs, on the other hand, appear to have some issues, because there were > two big changes in the past several months: > 1) the LUA stuff was moved from the User's Guide to the Developer's Guide > 2) the documentation system for Lua was changed from perl->XML->HTML to > perl->AsciiDoc->HTML > > Links to the docs got a bit screwed up due to (1) above, so some links will > be dead until we get notified of them. (as you just did :) > > I think what happened with link [3], which is of Chapter 10.4, is that the > subsequent Chapters 10.6-10.18 used to be under/within Chapter 10.4 - i.e., > they were Chapters 10.4.1-10.4.12 or whatever. That probably got screwed up > due to (2) above. Although personally I kind of like the new structure, and > Chapter 10.4 should probably just be deleted since it's now one sentence. > > -hadriel > > > On Jan 13, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Stephan Arndt <arndt.step...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey guys, >> >> I'm trying to write a dissector in Wireshark and want to use LUA for it. >> While trying to look for some documentation on how to get started, I got >> "mixed signals" on how much support there is for LUA within the >> wireshark community: >> >> On the plus side: >> >> There was this talk from Sharkfest '14 titled "Old & busted: C-code >> New-hotness: Lua", which puts LUA in a pretty good light for dissectors >> and also noted active developement on it in 1.11 and 1.12. >> >> But: >> >> There seems to be a lack of documentation, for example, the "Wireshark >> LUA API Reference Manual"[1] linked in the Wireshark Wiki on the LuaAPI >> page[2] is a 404, and the chapter[3] on LUA in the "Wireshark >> Developer's Guide"[4] is also non-existant. >> >> >> So after all, I wanted to know: >> >> Is LUA going to be supported in the future? Maybe even better than now? >> Or is it kind of deprecated, and not much used? As I said, I feel the >> signals are kind of mixed in this. >> >> Regards, >> >> Stephan >> >> >> ------LINKS-------- >> [1] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/wsluarm.html >> [2] http://wiki.wireshark.org/LuaAPI >> [3] https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/wsluarm_modules.html >> [4] https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/index.html >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> >> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev >> Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev >> mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe >
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