A native dtdesc

[trixie]

The tool "dtdesc", used to create datatype descriptors, is old and looks sh*tty, is there a native version for OS4?

[salass00]

I started working on some tools written in ruby for reading/writing datatype descriptors some time ago (don't remember how finished they were). The main purpose was to have something that I can use on my Ubuntu and Cygwin cross-compiler setups but of course with a decent enough ruby port they should be usable on AmigaOS 4 as well (there's a pretty old miniruby port on OS4Depot that might work for these tools at least).

[trixie]

I might as well have asked Steven Solie if they have the sources - I could update dtdesc for OS4 then, it would be a weekend's job I assume.

Steven?

[chris]

I might as well have asked Steven Solie if they have the sources - I could update dtdesc for OS4 then, it would be a weekend's job I assume.

Just including the current version in the SDK would be a start! IIRC at the moment the it's hidden somewhere on the DevCD.

[trixie]

Just including the current version in the SDK would be a start! IIRC at the moment the it's hidden somewhere on the DevCD.

True. It did take me some time to find it And including it in the SDK shouldn't be a problem because AFAIK Hyperion has rights to the Developer CD (though probably not the latest one because it was made by Haage&Partner). The dtdesc source may not have survived; well it's definitely not on the DevCD. That would be a pity because reworking it for OS4 should be a quickie: David Junod wrote quality code.

[salass00]

@chris

For those who don't have the DevCD there is also:
http://aminet.net/package/dev/misc/MakeDT-1.3 (ARexx script)
http://aminet.net/package/util/dtype/dtmake (dtread and dtwrite tools)