Hi Taylor, please, next time start a new thread. That way comments to individual applications would not interleave.
Dne 5. dubna 2012 6:45 Taylor Killian <tay...@taylorkillian.com> napsal(a): > I have also just submitted a proposal for the Structured Binary Data > editing library as described by ticket #317. You can find my > application at > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/tkillian/1# > . I would definitely appreciate the communities critique on my I think that you focus too much on the ability to parse structs from C headers. Complex structures cannot be captured by C structs well and what you find in a C header are mostly fragments that are hammered together by the application. A typical example is a USB string descriptor where first byte denotes string length and is followed by the actual string. That is impossible to catch in a struct in a reasonable way. That is why a custom format shall be defined. Probably, an opposite function - convert format to the struct - would be more useful. The scenario I have in mind is that the developer first wants to get a feel for the thing and just browses (more or less) manually existing data and afterwards, starts coding. For the timeline: I would appreciate if the advanced functionality would appear earlier. For example, without the variable-length structures or dynamic offsets (e.g. first byte specifies where the data starts) it editor would be just a little bit smarter hex viewer. That is for my first impression. I may add more comments later. - Vojta > application, specifically on the proposed timeline. Please let me know > if any of the milestones need clarification. > > I have also been working on an initial implementation of the library, > my work thus far is located at > http://code.google.com/p/taylor-killian/downloads/detail?name=BinaryEditor.tar.gz > . I apologize for any of the mess in the code. I have been taking a > full load of classes this semester and have had to squeeze in some > coding time whenever I was not doing homework or reading > specifications :) > > You may remember that initially I was planning on applying for the UDF > project. However while I was in the midst of reading the UDF and ECMA > specifications, Julia Medvedeva submitted her excellent proposal and > patch. And I believe that she is most likely very suited for the > project. However now that I have worked on the Structured Binary Data > editing library, I feel like I will be very happy working on it and > have lots of ideas in store for it :) > > Thanks, > Taylor Killian > > _______________________________________________ > HelenOS-devel mailing list > HelenOS-devel@lists.modry.cz > http://lists.modry.cz/cgi-bin/listinfo/helenos-devel _______________________________________________ HelenOS-devel mailing list HelenOS-devel@lists.modry.cz http://lists.modry.cz/cgi-bin/listinfo/helenos-devel
