diff options
author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> | 2017-01-28 16:33:13 -0600 |
---|---|---|
committer | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> | 2017-01-28 16:33:13 -0600 |
commit | dec445bc3c271e383035a59858ebc80464162d16 (patch) | |
tree | 418360e16c825bfebbafd5310f6a65a1055b98d8 /www | |
parent | 83f4d4b3a97ee60f7b451eba9c1513847a898b23 (diff) | |
download | toybox-dec445bc3c271e383035a59858ebc80464162d16.tar.gz |
Remove s6 from roadmap. (It wasn't in status.html anyway, haven't updated
our comparison in years, and email with the maintainer convinced me it's
not a good yardstick for "what a traditional linux system expects to have".)
Diffstat (limited to 'www')
-rwxr-xr-x | www/roadmap.html | 54 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 52 deletions
diff --git a/www/roadmap.html b/www/roadmap.html index 0bd14dd4..0638694b 100755 --- a/www/roadmap.html +++ b/www/roadmap.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ build itself using the result to build Linux From Scratch (version 6.8). We also aim to replace Android's Toolbox.</p> <p>At a secondary level we'd like to meet other use cases. We've analyzed -the commands provided by similar projects (klibc, sash, sbase, s6, embutils, +the commands provided by similar projects (klibc, sash, sbase, embutils, nash, and beastiebox), along with various vendor configurations of busybox, and some end user requests.</p> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ and progress towards implementing it.</p> <li><a href=#android>Android Toolbox</a></li> <li><a href=#tizen>Tizen Core</a></li> <li>Miscelaneous: <a href=#klibc>klibc</a>, <a href=#glibc>glibc</a>, -<a href=#sash>sash</a>, <a href=#sbase>sbase</a>, <a href=#s6>s6</a>, +<a href=#sash>sash</a>, <a href=#sbase>sbase</a>, <a href=#uclinux>uclinux</a>...</li> </ul> @@ -583,56 +583,6 @@ who </p></blockquote> <hr /> -<a name=s6 /> -<h2>s6</h2> - -<p>The website <a href=http://skarnet.org/software/>skarnet</a> has a bunch -of small utilities as part of something called "s6". This includes the -<a href=http://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils>s6-portabile-utils</a> -and the <a href=http://skarnet.org/software/s6-linux-utils>s6-linux-utils</a>. -</p> - -<p>Both packages rely on multiple bespoke external libraries without which -they can't compile. The source is completely uncommented and doesn't wrap at -80 characters. Doing a find for *.c files brings up the following commands:</p> - -<blockquote><b> -<span id=s6> -basename cat chmod chown chroot clock cut devd dirname echo env expr false -format-filter freeramdisk grep halt head hiercopy hostname linkname ln -logwatch ls maximumtime memoryhog mkdir mkfifo mount nice nuke pause -pivotchroot poweroff printenv quote quote-filter reboot rename rmrf sleep -sort swapoff swapon sync tail test touch true umount uniquename unquote -unquote-filter update-symlinks -</span> -</b></blockquote> - -<p>Triage: memoryhog isn't even listed on the website nor does it have -a documentation file, clock seems like a subset -of date, devd is some sort of netlink wrapper that spawns its command line -every time it gets a message (maybe this is meant to implement part of -udev/mdev?), format-filter is sort of awk's '{print $2}' function split out -into its own command, hiercopy a subset of "cp -r", maximumtime is something -I implemented as a shell script (more/timeout.sh in Aboriginal Linux), -nuke isn't the same as klibc (this one's "kill SIG -1" only with hardwared -SIG options), pause is a program that literally waits to be killed (I -generally sleep 999999999 which is a little over 30 years), -pivotchroot is a subset of switch_root, rmrf is rm -rf...</p> - -<p>I see "nuke" resurface, and if "rmrf" wasn't also here I might think -klibc had a point.</b> - -<blockquote> -basename cat chmod chown chroot cut dirname echo env expr false -freeramdisk grep halt head hostname linkname ln -logwatch ls mkdir mkfifo mount nice -pivotchroot poweroff printenv quote quote-filter reboot rename sleep -sort swapoff swapon sync tail test touch true umount uniquename unquote -unquote-filter update-symlinks -</blockquote> - - -<hr /> <a name=nash /> <h2>nash:</h2> |