> BTW, I made some progress: I wrote a little program, that is able to > analyze a resource file. It doesn't support ELF files yet, but I've got > all the information I need, thus it should be easy to do. > Another thing to figure out is how the check sum at the end of the > resources work. But as soon as that is in place, I can start the field > tests. :-) Good deal. > Regarding the test suite for BResources, it may be a good idea to provide > some resource files for the tests. Otherwise it can only be ensured that > our BResources can eat the stuff, it created, but leaves open, if it is > compatible with the original Be resources. > Where would I put those files? In a subdirectory in test/ ? > Mmh, I just have the idea, that I could write a little command to create > and edit resource files. Then the test files could be created on the > fly. Excutables had to be at tested as well... but we have /bin... > Mmh, I will think about it. Yeah, I would go with the second method. You could use mwdres to dump a resource file from something in /boot/beos/apps too. -Tyler