[BusyBox] NOW they come up with a reworked sed....<smile> PS Thanks Busybox

Erik Andersen andersen at lineo.com
Wed Jul 12 23:33:27 UTC 2000


On Tue Jul 11, 2000 at 07:11:40PM -0700, Michael Peddemors wrote:
> Glad to hear it, jsut spent the worst 4 weeks of my life trying to get all my 
> scripting working with the older version for our new release of LinuxMagic 
> VPN on a floppy..  Was SO.. tempted to include the original SED but struggled 
> thru.... At least this will help with our enhancements.. 

Wow!  If you had major sed dependancies, you probably could have saved yourself
some pain and left the heavy lifting to a real sed implementation.  esr's sed,
or an old version of GNU sed arn't _that_ big (but they are bigger the bb sed).

The Debian boot floppies use busybox, but they turned off BB sed and used the
real thing.  I was going to be to painful for then to switch over.

Sometime, we should probably make BB sed fully comformant with the full sed
language.


> Cheating a little, rather than checking all the release notes now..
> Is there anything that will break old BusyBox SED compliant scripts?

Look like aTEXT is gone.  Dod you use it?  If so, I'll ask Mark to put it back.

> Will look at the option of upgrading Busybox on our next release, but quite 
> happy now with our distro... still have 230k left over on the 1743 disk, 
> wondering where to squander it on..... Hmm.. fancy dialog boxes?? or an 
> enhanced IKE... 

Sure. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.  You'd probably break something...

> Thanks Busybox, couldn't have done it without you.... Well, not without 
> making it 20 weeks instead of 4...  And a heart attack besides...

Cool!!!  I ought to add that to a new "Testimonials" section on the web page!
:-)

> http://linuxmagic.com
> http://wizard.ca
> 
> LinuxMagic VPN on a floppy is now in Beta..

Would you like a link from the BusyBox web page?

 -Erik

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