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| author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> | 2006-11-05 01:01:34 -0500 |
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| committer | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> | 2006-11-05 01:01:34 -0500 |
| commit | 3f920589e2eaed2fb6fb5b02251b68ba0935e09f (patch) | |
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| download | toybox-3f920589e2eaed2fb6fb5b02251b68ba0935e09f.tar.gz | |
Redo the index page (flesh it out about halfway), and a couple tweaks to
the license page.
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diff --git a/www/index.html b/www/index.html index 94a9da2c..3b651ba2 100644 --- a/www/index.html +++ b/www/index.html @@ -1,6 +1,64 @@ <html><title>toybox</title> <body> +<h2>What is ToyBox?</h2> + +<p>Toybox aims to implement all the Linux command line utilities in under one +megabyte. This project aims for small, simple, and efficient implementations, +with configurable levels of functionality. It should scale from tiny embedded +systems up to full fledged desktop and development environments.</p> + +<p>The project is <a href=license.html>Licensed under GPL version 2</a>.</p> + +<p>Toybox can be built as a single "swiss army knife" executable (ala BusyBox +or Red Hat's Nash), or each command can be built as a traditional independent +executable.</p> + +<h2>Which commands are planned?</h2> + +<b><h3>Relevant Standards</h3></b> + +<p>Most commands are implemented according to +<a href=http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/idx/utilities.html>The +Single Unix Specification version 3</a>. This does not mean that Toybox is +implementing every SUSv3 utility: some such as SCCS and ed are obsolete, while +others such as c99 are outside the scope of the project. Toybox also isn't +implementing full internationalization support: it should be 8-bit clean and +handle UTF-8, but otherwise we leave this to X11 and higher layers.</p> + +<p>The other major sources of commands are the Linux man pages, and testing +the behavior of existing commands (although not generally looking at their +source code).</p> + +<b><h3>Command Shell</h3></b> +<p>The Toybox Shell aims to be a reasonable bash replacement. It implements +the "sh" and "toysh" commands, plus the built-in commands "cd" and "exit". +The following additional commands may be built into the shell (but not as +separate executables): cd, exit, if, while, for, function, fg, bg, jobs, source, +<a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/alias.html">alias</a>, +export, set, unset, read, trap, and exec.</p> + +<b><h3>General Purpose Commands:</h3></b> + +<p>[TODO]</p> + +<b><h3>Development tools:</h3></b> + +<p>Commands: ar, make [TODO]</p> + +<b><h2>What commands are implemented?</h2></b> + +<p>Toybox is a work in progress, and nowhere near a 1.0 release. The first +commit was September 27, 2006, and work is ongoing.</p> + +<p>Partial (in progress): sh/toysh (cd, exit), df, which.</p> + +<p>Complete: hello, pwd.</p> + +<p>Infrastructure:</p> + +<b><h2>Download</h2></b> + <p>This project is maintained as a mercurial archive. To get a copy of the current development version, "hg clone static-http://landley.net/code/toybox", or check <a href=download>the download directory</a> for release tarballs. |