[BusyBox] New busybox to-do list.

Josh dreamer3 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 24 19:26:18 UTC 2005


The less tool from asmutils is very sweet (and written in assembly -
ie, tiny.) and is released under the GPL... would only work on x86
platforms thought...

Just a thought...

Josh

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:57:26 -0500, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> 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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