Thanks again for the feedback, this has now been moved to extragear/sdk. On Saturday, 28 September 2019 13:01:11 CET Volker Krause wrote: > Hi, > > ELF Dissector has been moved to kdereview for the usual review process. > > https://phabricator.kde.org/source/elf-dissector/ > > ELF Dissector is a static analysis tool for ELF libraries and executables, > for doing things like inspecting forward and backward dependencies (on a > library or symbol level), identifying load-time performance bottlenecks > such as expensive static constructors or excessive relocations, or size > profiling of ELF files. > > ELF Dissector has been living in playground for more than 6 years because I > was sloppy following the right process. Since it's in active use by a number > of people, is actively maintained and remains relevant and useful I think > it's time to finally rectify this :) > > Regarding its final destination, extragear/sdk looks like the obvious > candidate, as its such a niche tool that being part of the KDE Application > bundle is probably hard to argue. Once KDE Applications and the "release > service" are sufficiently decoupled, I'd of course be more than happy to > have it covered by the automatic release process. > > Regarding distribution, there is one annoying aspect, its dependency on > semi- public binutils API for accessing the C++ symbol demangling AST. That > works on conventional Linux distributions, but I failed to make it work as > a Flatpak due to that. > > Regarding portability, this currently only builds on ELF-based systems, > although theoretically this could be useful on a Windows host used for > embedded Linux development too. It's not impossible to make this work > eventually I think, but it's probably quite some work. > > Thanks, > Volker
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