Agreed, although I have no idea how many authors are currently working on libs. I know you have some going for a few of the binary files. ChrisKang is working on his own parser and project to generate heightmaps and make them into terrains. So if anyone else is working on something and interested we could get something going. One of the first steps would be to make a todo list. I would go for the bare minimum first.
- Read format file into memory
- Write the memory back to file without breaking it
Next we could create helpers at will without breaking the base file read and write. Ok granted users can still mess up their files with bad data, but when careful helper authors could minmize that risk
Also each file format needs NUnit tests !!!!
