archaeology mit Homebrew Cask installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• trowel

Projektgeschichte

Mothers Ruin Software created Archaeology as an internal debugging utility before making it publicly available. Its decoders combine public platform APIs with reverse engineering for formats that lack public specifications or APIs. The official release history documents continuing updates for changes in macOS binary formats.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The developers originally built Archaeology for their own product debugging and day-to-day macOS investigations. They released it publicly after repeatedly finding the internal tool useful, while continuing to characterize it as deliberately niche.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users open or drag a file into Archaeology, inspect its decoded representation, and recursively decode embedded data. Values can be searched, copied, exported, hashed, or opened in a hex editor. The bundled trowel command-line tool can ask the GUI to open a path.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Archaeology consolidates inspection of numerous nested, obscure, or Apple-specific binary formats into one native interface. It is particularly relevant to macOS developers, reverse engineers, and packaging specialists investigating bundles, code signatures, receipts, provisioning profiles, property lists, and Mach-O binaries.

Zeitleiste

• The project began as an internal debugging tool at Mothers Ruin Software.
• 2025: Version 1.5 was released with support for newer URL Bookmark formats.

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Quellen

• https://www.mothersruin.com/software/Archaeology/
• https://www.mothersruin.com/software/Archaeology/formats.html
• https://www.mothersruin.com/software/Archaeology/relnotes.html
• https://www.mothersruin.com/software/Archaeology/reverse/
• https://www.mothersruin.com/software/Archaeology/use.html