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Feature #3862
closedAdd support for asn1scc
Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Low
Assignee:
-
Target version:
-
Start date:
03/26/2019
Due date:
% Done:
0%
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Description
The asn1c which we use is problematic due to non-existent maintenance: multiple forks implementing missing features, very infrequent releases, lots of distro-specific patches etc. As a result we even have to maintain our own fork of it.
There's alternative FOSS ASN.1 compiler which is under active development: https://github.com/ttsiodras/asn1scc
With documentation available from https://www.thanassis.space/asn1.html
It might be worth investigating whether it has the necessary features and could be used as a replacement of asn1c. The possible downside of missing distro packages could be greatly outweigh if we could drop maintenance burden induced by asn1c.
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