I'm going out now. I may be some time.

[Robert Schwebel]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 05:45:08PM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> I believe that busybox now is mature enough to be almost usable
> on ordinary desktop machines. So I actually did that - replaced
> most of applicable /bin/* with links to busybox.
> I expect some fallout. I will try to fix it.

Hmm, I assume if you want to aim for desktop use you'll have to provide
the standard POSIX behaviour of the tools. Otherwhise it's a matter of
which tools you try, which would be a little bit arbitrary.

> Busybox should not lose its position of embedded device tool.
> I think it makes sense to introduce CONFIG_DESKTOP and put
> all such things under it. I will add such thing with gunzip -v fix.
> Non-DESKTOP bbox will silently ignore -v,
> DESKTOP one will print statistics.

Why not have a CONFIG_SOMEAPPLET_POSIX, which selects all config entries
necessary for POSIX behaviour?

IMHO the evaluation of bb into an alternative for the GNU tools could be
interesting. At the moment we for example more and more use the original
tools instead of bb for our embedded projects, just because there is
quite some functionality missing. Nevertheless, there are quite some
standard tools which are not really maintained any more, or in a poor
fashion. So a vaiuable alternative would be nice.

Robert
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