Tuesday, July 3, 2012

drg to sbg

After releasing version 1.2.11 I thought my job was done, wasn't planning to improve it in any way, until I received an email with a bug report. My first thought was "wait, people are still using this?" and it seems they do. The project has close to 5k downloads in total and after 3 days of releasing 1.2.12 the download count was already at 19.

Since people are still using it, I'll try to do my best to improve it, this is my TODO list (for version 2.0):

  • Migrate to git (I like git a lot)
  • Drop ChangeLog (git log will provide that)
  • Change version schema (2 digits instead of 3)
  • Allows raw output (I use a small function to parse the original output to be SBaGen friendly)
  • Allow dumping the image (every drg file has an image)
  • Drop openssl dependency (currently only used for base64 decoding, seems overkill)
  • Build drg (if you have an image, description and SBaGen code, you can make your own .drg file)
I have to give special thanks to Loïc H. for providing me with a nice set of Unofficial doses to test. Merci beaucoup, mon ami