tins2831 / ksy-dl

Downloads .ksy files and their dependencies straight from the official kaitai-struct format gallery.
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Please add some FAQ #1

Open KOLANICH opened 3 years ago

KOLANICH commented 3 years ago

Hello. Thanks for the tool. But what is the rationale for such a tool? Isn't it easier to download from the official git repo instead, as I do in my https://github.com/kaitaiStructCompile/kaitaiStructCompile.repo ?

The only really valuable use case I can imagine is downloading pre-transpiled sources. But it is not yet implemented. I'd create a separate bug for it.

tins2831 commented 3 years ago

Hi. Thanks for the compliment. Not too long ago, I was manually scraping the code off the website and saving it in individual files inside my projects. It became time consuming, especially when a specification like PCAP has so many recursive dependencies. So I developed a small utility to automate the entirety of it.

I immediately saw the potential in the new tool I developed and began improving my tool so that it will:

This makes it easy to include, modify, and share official and community created kaitai-struct specifications in individual projects.

tins2831 commented 3 years ago

The only really valuable use case I can imagine is downloading pre-transpiled sources.

That's a great suggestion! However, development might be a bit slow since I am working on other projects.