[BusyBox] Changelog

[Erik Andersen]

On Thu Jan 04, 2001 at 12:28:45PM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> Erik et al. -
> 
> I am in favor of an early 0.49 release, in particular
> long before Erik and I try to drop in a rewritten sh,
> but preferably after I figure out how to safely re-enable
> BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL.
> 
> Here are some Changelog entries for you:

Excellent, thanks!

> * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
> * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
> * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
> * ?? -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
> * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
> * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
> * ?? -- cleaned up dd and tail with shiny new parse_number routine
> * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt
> * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet to BusyBox"
> * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug
> * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels
> * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made util-linux compatible
> * ?? -- many more internal symbols classified static to avoid namespace pollution

Guilty as charged.

> * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
> * ?? -- unused parts of sed removed

This was just a side effect of a larger fix.  Should be

* Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters


> * Larry Doolittle et al. -- internal shell cleanup and buglet fixing, read and exec should work better now
> * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now handles regexp file exclusion
> * Larry Doolittle -- new script to automate build rule checking
> 


> What ever happened to Richard June and df?

Hmm.  No idea.

> I assume Matt's new tail will go in.

Yup.

also off the top of my head (well, ok I cheated -- I ran 'rcs2log').

* Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init.
* Erik Andersen -- sh.c renamed all symbols per the style guide.  Better
    if-then-else-fi handling
* Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
* Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48.  Now fixed (and doesn't use
    getline anymore, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).

Anything else lacking?

BTW, another of my stated goals for this release (see TODO) was to get the
networking apps removed from busybox and into netkit-tiny.  I have put together
netkit-tiny at this point (it compiles, it runs, it carefully drops perms, but
could use some ongoing care), so I propose to eliminate the networking apps
from busybox now.  Any stong opinions?

 -Erik

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