[BusyBox] 0.46 released

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Fri Jul 14 00:32:08 UTC 2000


Hello, Mark!

> I agree with Pavel on this one. There's a distastefully incestuous

I didn't say it :-)

> relationship between some of the apps in busybox, namely: chmod_chown_chgrp.c,
> cp_mv.c and true_false.c (although arguably true_false.c is the least of the
> offenders, if indeed an offender at all). The common code in those files
> should be put into utility.c. In addition to accomplishing the

Not necessarily to utility.c
libbusybox.a can consist of more than one object file.

> modularity/standalone goals, it would also make the common routines those
> programs use available to other programs (present and future).

That's a good point.

Regards,
Pavel Roskin






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