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diff --git a/www/index.html b/www/index.html index ab7314df..0def2f13 100755..120000 --- a/www/index.html +++ b/www/index.html @@ -1,113 +1 @@ -<!--#include file="header.html" --> -<p><b>January 2, 2008</b> - And <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.4.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.4.tar.bz2</a> is out. New applets include patch, touch, and sha1sum.</p> - -<p><b>December 12, 2007</b> - Updated the list of implemented applications, -put up a <a href=todo.txt>todo list</a> and <a href=code.html>infrastructure -documentation</a>. Expect another release towards the end of the month.</p> - -<p><b>June 18, 2007</b> - Put out -<a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2</a> since it's -been too long since I did something like that. This one implements -catv, count, df, echo, false, oneit, pwd, sleep, sync, toysh, true, which, -and yes (which is what "make defconfig" enables). There are several other -commands not enabled by defconfig, because they don't really work yet.</p> - -<p>Most of the general infrastructure's there now, although lots of tweaking -and optimizing is still needed. The test suite is skeletal and not entirely -checked in yet, but I'm working on that.</p> - -<p>I don't have nearly as much time to work on this as I'd like, but I'm making -a little progress.</p> - -<p><b>January 31, 2007</b> - -Screwing up the web page a bit, adding an index bar along the side -which doesn't properly connect up to anything yet. (Busy implementing -mke2fs and gene2fs.)</p> - -<p>Warning: lots of this page is about what I plan to do, not what I've -already done. See <a href="#status>status</a> or <a href="/notes.html>my -development blog</a>, or <a href="/hg/toybox">browse the mercurial -archive</a>.</p> - -<h2><a name="what" />What is ToyBox?</h2> - -<p>The goal of the Toybox project is to create simple implementations of all -the important Linux command line utilities. These implementations should -be small (the entire project should total less than a megabyte, uncompressed), -fast, simple, and correctly implemented (which is related to standards -compliance, but isn't quite the same thing). Click for -<a href="design.html">more about the design goals</a></p> - -<p>Toybox has configurable levels of functionality, and should scale from tiny -embedded systems up to full general purpose desktop and development -environments. The author plans to run it on his laptop, and the -<a href=/code/firmware>Firmware Linux</a> project is trying to get a complete -Linux system to rebuild itself from source code using toybox.</p> - -<p>Toybox 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><a name="commands" />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. And -some things (like $CDPATH support in "cd") await a good explanation of why -to bother with them.</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><h2><a name="status" />What commands are implemented?</h2></b> - -<p>The following commands are currently implemented: basename, catv, chroot, -count, df, dirname, dmesg, echo, false, hello, mkfifo, oneit, pwd, sha1sum, -sleep, sync, true, tty, which, yes.</p> - -<p>The following commands are partly implemented, in a somewhat usable but not -necessarily complete state: bzcat/bunzip2, help, mke2fs, netcat/nc, sh/toysh, -mdev, touch, readlink.</p> - -<p>The following are partially implemented commands that don't actually do -anything yet: mke2fs, md5sum.</p> - -<p>For more information, see <a href=todo.txt>the todo list</a>.</p> - -<b><h3>Command Shell</h3></b> -<p>The Toybox Shell (toysh) aims to be a reasonable bash replacement. It -implements the "sh" and "toysh" commands, plus the built-in commands "cd" and -"exit". This is the largest single sub-project in toybox.</p> - -<p>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. (Note: not done yet.)</p> - -</ul> - -<b><h2><a name="downloads" />Download</h2></b> - -<p>This project is maintained as a mercurial archive. To get a copy of the -current development version, either use mercurial (hg clone -http://landley.net/toybox) or click on one of the zip/gz/bz2 links -at the top of the <a href=/hg/toybox>mercurial archive browser</a> page to get -an archive of the appropriate version. Click -<a href="/hg/toybox?cmd=tags">tags</a> to the tagged release versions ("tip" -is the current development version).</p> - - -<p>My <a href=/notes.html>development log</a> is currently the best way to -track what's going on with this project. There's also a -<a href=http://www2.them.com:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/toybox>mailing list</a> for toybox development.</p> - -<!--#include file="footer.html" --> +news.html
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