bbox: musl versus uclibc

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Aug 16 13:25:20 UTC 2017


On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:59:41 -0500, wdlkmpx wrote:
>
>> I'm sure there was plenty of people willing to contribute  to uclibc,
>> there is even an updated fork.
>>
>> The project has been badly managed.. thats the only reason i can think
>> of for this situation  to happen
>
> uClibc-ng is alive at https://uclibc-ng.org/. Regular releases
> (actually more regular than musl in recent months!), updated web site,
> responsive maintainer, lots of cleanup in the code base, and QA effort.
>
> So saying that uClibc is dead is completely incorrect.

These "ng" names are not the best idea.

Maybe uclibc-ng can just supersede uclibc?

We can give www.uclibc.org domain (or the server itself) to it.


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