Snaipe

This means that if you distribute your dissector, you have to make your sources available.

This is nothing new though: all wireshark plugins must be GPL, since the API itself they rely on is GPL.

This is because wssdl is still within the boundaries of the lua grammar: the file you provide is still lua, so you have to abide by its rule.

I experimented with a key/value approach on the syntax itself (something like `{ src_port = u16 }` or `{ src_port = 16 }`), which was nicer, but the problem was that, in lua, table literals are unordered. The current approach uses the method syntax (`a:b()`) as a nice workaround, but this mandates the use of parenthesis after the type and other specifiers. This is fine though since a lot of the provided types are parameterized (e.g. `bytes(n)` which takes a number of octets)

I originally made this for an interactive index where you can query some document parts, and these parts are written in rst -- in essence, it's almost the same: rendering an arbitrary document into a string, that you may or may not manipulate later.

Man pages are their own thing -- although the end result could be the same with some aesthetic differences (man pages does not support colors per-se, though with a config you could style your titles or emphasis).

rst2ansi is a more generic document renderer, that may be used in another program to render document parts. It doesn't convert the document to an intermediate man page, nor specifically formats the document as, well, documentation.

Author here.

This software is still in alpha, and lacks in both handling some reST features and style extensibility, but is still pretty much functional.

I made this for another project of mine where I needed to render some document parts over the terminal, and decided to give reST a go.

As always, suggestions are welcome.