[PATCH/RFC] readahead applet

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Mon Aug 21 16:11:19 UTC 2006


On Monday 21 August 2006 7:01 am, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:
> > 
> > At this point I'm wondering if we should have another directory just for 
> > applets that busybox has but the rest of the world doesn't.  The original 
> > reason for the directories was to match the packages it was 
reimplementing, 
> > but we've wandered from that a bit...
> > 
> 
>   This is a great idea also because EXTRABB applets could be compiled 
> alone to be usefull for others system or not compiled at all to mantain 
> the compatibility with others system. As users like.

Hmmm...

Mercurial can move files without losing their history, but the one time I 
tried it in svn (svn 13452) it blanked the history.  (Of course what seems to 
have confused it is that I deleted the directory I moved the files _out_ of 
in the same checkin, but that kind of implementation detail leaking up to the 
user interface level to bite me even though I used "svn move" is just evil.)

Rob

P.S.  What I _want_ to do is move all the applet directories under applets and 
leave just applets, docs, examples, include, libbb, scripts, testsuite, 
README, AUTHORS, LICENSE, TODO, Rules.mak, INSTALL, Makefile, and Config.in 
at the top level.  In addition to being cleaner this would make 
scripts/individual more robust since it could do a "find applets" and not 
have to filter out false positives like scripts/config/expr.c or 
libbb/login.c...)
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