Contribute back to Pwntools

[zachriggle]

You've got a lot of really great ideas implemented here, it would be really cool if you could try to port them to Pwntools and open some Pull Requests!

[152334H]

The biggest barrier to me doing precisely that has always been the presence of pre-existing code I don't want to disturb / think about. Obvious offenders here are the already-existing pwnlib.libcdb & pwnlib.FmtStr modules.

It's not like I haven't thought about it often. There are parts of this repo (see pwnscripts/context.py) that would've been really easier to implement upstream...

...and you know, I wanted to try that with the ROP Pull Request a while back. I ended up calling that one quits because I fundamentally disagreed with the suggested changes, but I also felt that it'd be wrong or counterfactual to brazenly disagree with someone that's sunk in a few hundred thousand lines in commits.

Shifting the work I've done here upstream at some point is essentially inevitable. Keeping up with all of the monkeypatching I have to do to keep pwnscripts alive is something I'm not very keen on maintaining. At the same time, I don't want to see my own designs here butchered in some quick hacky port of half the features to pwntools proper.

You'll be seeing a number of pull requests from me eventually --- just not right now.