[git commit] bc: new applet, throws warning

[Gavin Howard]

On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 2:30 PM Michael Conrad <mconrad at intellitree.com> wrote:
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> On 12/6/2018 11:48 AM, Gavin Howard wrote:
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> > you are going to have to make the bc not give good error messages and/or not check for errors as thoroughly (a massive chunk of the parser, which is the largest portion, is dedicated to error checking), reduce the quality of the code, reduce the performance of the math (though this would not remove much), or all of them combined.
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> Just FYI, these are typical things people do for busybox applets ;-)
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> I'm not a bc user, so I don't care either way; having the applet seems better than not having it, and you seem to have thoroughly completed a difficult project.  …but I do think maybe you missed the spirit of Busybox code.

Fair enough, mostly, because I know the point of busybox, actually. I
have given the maintainers the option of doing whatever they wish with
my bc; it's just that if they do, I probably can't help maintain it.

That may not be a bad thing, either, since I have written this bc to
basically be perfect, so it will probably not need any maintenance at
all.

Gavin Howard