[BusyBox] BusyBox / Netkit-Tiny / TinyLogin status...?

Mark Whitley markw at lineo.com
Thu Feb 15 23:47:25 UTC 2001


On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 06:19:42PM -0500, Tom Cameron wrote:
> Hello all,
> 	Well, now that I have a working system, I just wanted to follow up
> on some emails that I was clearing out of my box.  What is the status of
> merging netkit-tiny with busybox?  Is it to a point where I should be using
> the features from BusyBox, and not even bothering with Netkit-Tiny?  Just
> wondering what was up with that.  Additionally, are there/have there been
> any plans to merge tinylogin and busybox?  Currently I am grabbing all of
> these packages, compiling them against uClibc, and everything is happy
> (thanks to all your efforts!)...should I just continue to do this until I
> see an email telling me that "Hooray!  We have merged these packages!!!"?  I
> appreciate all your help!

Quick answer to the last question: Yes, just keep doing it til you hear an
announcement otherwise.

WRT your earlier question on the status of merging various other projects with
busybox: Some weeks ago I sent a message to the mailing list entitled
"Synopsis / Consensus of recent threads", which answered this and many other
questions. I will not repeat everything I said in that message, instead, I'll
point you to the copy in the mailing list archive at this URL:

http://busybox.net/lists/busybox/2001-February/001887.html

(BTW, if you have any other questions / comments about the stuff in this old
message, feel free to post it here.)

Short answer: A number of people on the mailing list favor the idea of merging
some or all of the other little packages into busybox, including netkit-tiny
and even tinylogin. We're not entirely sure how the details will work out
(i.e. new subdirectories, making a libbusybox, documentation changes, etc.),
but we'll make sure to give everyone a say before changing anything drastic.

Furthermore, we will not be making any drastic changes until we release
busybox version 0.50 (aka: "the release that 0.49 should have been"). The
v0.50 relese will be mostly just a bugfix release, but there have also been
some new applets added (i.e. stty, ifconfig, route) that will be included.

Mark Whitley
markw at lineo.com





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