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Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby
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the future of Veles: adoption by the Kaitai community? #895

Open pabs3 opened 3 years ago

pabs3 commented 3 years ago

Hi all,

The Veles project is a binary data analysis and visualization tool based on Kaitai Struct and created by @mkow, @mwkmwkmwk and others from @codilime.

Unfortunately CodiLime discontinued their CodiSec efforts, retired Veles, discontinued Veles development and archived the Veles repository.

I've always thought Veles was an interesting tool and was sad to see that it got archived.

So I was wondering if the Kaitai Struct community would be interested in having the Veles repository including issues and pull requests transferred to the kaitai-io GitHub organisation and continuing development of Veles.

The Veles codebase is mostly C++ and also some Python. It is using the Qt GUI framework and the CMake build system. I believe the Kaitai Struct community has the knowledge needed to maintain it.

Aside from the open issues and pull requests, the main work needed would be to update to more recent versions of Qt. It also contains C++ code pre-generated from I believe the Kaitai formats repo, so that could be replaced with building from the source .ksy files.

KOLANICH commented 3 years ago

I can hypothesize that Hobbits author, @hello-adam, may be more interested in Veles than we are. His tool lacks near-useless (since we have 2d eyes and so cannot fully perceive 3d) 3d visualization, but 2d-capabilities are more advanced. I guess some Veles functionality can be ported to his tool.

hello-adam commented 3 years ago

yeah, Hobbits isn't quite a first-class Kaitai environment yet, but it's getting there. Let me know what capabilities or niceties of Veles you think I should try to port/implement in order to meet your needs!

https://github.com/Mahlet-Inc/hobbits