[BusyBox] New busybox to-do list.

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Mon Jan 24 12:57:26 UTC 2005


On Monday 24 January 2005 02:28 am, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:03:11 -0500
>
> Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> > I'd like to check this in as TODO, if nobody objects.
>
> Looks good to me, the only question is...
>
> Should it go into the TODO, or should TODO be ripped out altogether and
> items added to but tracking system.
>
> Glenn

*shrug*

I don't want to get in the position where a SUSv3 audit is held up as a reason 
for delaying the next busybox release the way the header audit delayed uClibc 
0.9.27.  At the same time, we should let anybody who wanders by and wants to 
pitch in know what some good things to work on would be.

None of those to-do items are really bugs.  (Well, ok, the gzip and gunzip 
ones are, but nobody else seems to have noticed.)  The rest are things we 
don't do yet, but haven't ever done either.  I seem to be the only one trying 
to use busybox as a full-fledged replacement for (at last count) 17 
traditional software packages and get the result self-hosting.  So I bump 
into some really strange corner cases that it's possible nobody else cares 
about.  Some entries (like the "busybox dogfood" option, or the individual 
compilation of applets) are pure wish-list items.

If you'd like to move any of those into the bug tracking database, by my 
guest.  The big question is, how does the bug tracking database handle 
year-old bugs nobody's worked on, but which are still relevant?  Possibly it 
needs a "wish list" category?  (comm and diff would go in that, too.  And 
less, and most of the rest, really.  If it ain't got a testcase, it's not a 
bug...)

Rob



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