i'll be in #radare this night. Anybody ready for a spurious hackaton? :)

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 19:04 +0200, pancake wrote:
> radare is currently on 0.9.8...and I plan to release 0.9.9 before the
> end of the week (yeah..this is maybe today) I have lot of ideas and
> stuff to refactor/fix/implement. But currently 0.9.9 is FAR more stable
> and better than 0.9.8.
> 
> I have met a Gentoo developer which wants to maintain radare on portage,
> this will be helpful for fixing portaibility issues.
> 
> I am also moving threads on the design side for trying to get a
> tango-like icon for the 1.0 version.
> 
> If you spend some minutes of your life reading the changelog you'll
> notify some huge advances on 'rabin' the readelf/objdump/nm replacement
> supporting CLASS, EXE, ELF, MACHO, whatever files. and its integration
> with the core. So now everything is loaded much faster than before and
> gets better information from the binary exported as flags into the core
> which is cool for scripting :)
> 
> Another interesting feature is the 'undo write' which is implemented in
> the 'uw' command and allows you to undo/redo all the changes done on a
> file. Thats really useful for binary patching and testing, so you dont
> need to keep .orig files and going outside/inside radare all the time.
> 
> There's some more work on the -p (project file) support. and now you'll
> miss the .rdb files everywhere :) they should be in your ~/.radare/rdb
> now.
> 
> I have merged the !regs !set and !get commands of the debugger into a
> single one called !reg that accepts arguments:
> 
>   !reg , !regs , !regs*   -> list all registers in human or *radare way
>   !reg eax                -> show vlaue for eax
>   !reg eax=33             -> set vlaue for eax
> 
> it's a bit more kissized now :)
> 
> Nibble has done an awesome refactoring job on rabin and dietelf and
> currently it supoprts ELF32 and ELF64 natively for all the
> architectures.
> 
> There's some work to make radare happy with TCC (the tiny C compiler)
> and and
> 
> I plan to implement some more things like a better way to configure the
> colors of the screen, fix some data type bugs , support for MACH-O
> binaries, port the debugger to Darwin/x86/ppc/arm and Solaris/x86/sparc,
> enhace the graph layouts, etc... so this is probably an endless
> project :) but im getting lot of fun coding for it. I every time I use
> it I found it more useful and coherent.
> 
> I have also added a MSIL disassembler, and I plan to add support for
> debugging, code analysis and more shit for the .NET infrastructure.
> 
>   http://www.mono-project.com/Guide:Debugger
> 
> So I encourage all of you to pull the last mercurial version of radare
> and let me know if you found something weird/broken
> 
> BTW if you ask for documentation ... I dont plan to have a decent one
> for the 1.0..its too much work for a single person, but I encourage
> everybody to write tutorials and publish them in the forums or the
> mailing list. This way I can comment out them with better ways for doing
> the things and getting new ideas for it.
> 
> Enjoy it :)
> 
> --pancake
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