document updated 16 years ago, on Mar 18, 2008
==== Main documentation ====
The Wireshark LUA API documentation in HTML-chunked format is REALLY hard to read:
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/wsluarm_modules.html
However, it doesn't have to be. If you look at the .pdf version, it's much easier to read for two
reasons:
1. there's a more detailed TOC, so you can jump around and see the deeper hierarchy much better
2. the styling makes it much clearer what the <h4>/<h5>/<h6>'s are
It should be possible to change the DocBook configuration to incorporate some of these changes into
the HTML-changed only (and possibly HTML-single as well).
(if this were fixed, then I think a huge impediment to user-uptake of Lua scripts would be
removed... it really is a damn useful feature, but almost nobody has successfully gotten it working
yet because the docs are such a PITA)
==== Lua generally ====
Generally, Lua needs a lot of work, because not many people have started using it yet.
- the wiki documentation/examples need to be updated to make sure they work with the latest API
(it's changed a lot)
- the API was pretty well done, but still has a few small quirks/inconsistencies/incompletenesses