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Rob Landley | e258af3 | 2008-01-05 18:09:49 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | <h2>News</h2> |
Rob Landley | 31103f9 | 2012-08-25 11:51:25 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | <hr><b>July 23, 2012</b> |
| 5 | <blockquote><p>"Ford", Arthur said. "There's an infinite number of monkeys |
| 6 | out here who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked |
| 7 | out." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
| 8 | |
| 9 | <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.0.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.0</a> is based on commit |
| 10 | <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/640>commit 640</a>. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | <p>The new <a href=status.html>status page</a> is calculated from |
| 13 | the roadmap info, and should be easier to keep up to date in future.</p> |
| 14 | |
| 15 | <p>Andre Renaud contributed od and modinfo. Elie De Brauwer contributed |
| 16 | taskset, bugfixes to cmp and tail, and tests for sort and tail. Kyungwan Han |
| 17 | contributed passwd. Gaurang Shastri contributed w. Ashwini Sharma spotted a |
| 18 | case where dirtree was adding extra slashes to a path.</p> |
| 19 | |
| 20 | <p>I rewrote od, cleaned up comm, documented the |
| 21 | <a href=code.html#lib_llist>llist</a> and |
| 22 | <a href=code.html#lib_dirtree>dirtree</a> infrastructure, added an -r option |
| 23 | to date (and fixed a bug where -u wouldn't override /etc/localtime), |
| 24 | fixed bugs in chmod +stw, fixed ls to show suid bits properly when the |
| 25 | corresponding executable bit wasn't set, and worked around a longstanding |
| 26 | glibc bug where static linking prevents stdout from automatically flushing |
| 27 | pending output on exit.</p> |
| 28 | |
Rob Landley | b1cc1d1 | 2012-06-25 06:42:24 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | <hr><b>June 25, 2012</b> |
| 30 | <blockquote><p>"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
| 31 | |
| 32 | <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.3.1.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.3.1</a> is based on commit |
| 33 | <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/607>commit 607</a>. It's |
| 34 | mostly a bugfix release for ls -l (which was unhappy on targets other than |
| 35 | x86-64), plus a new "date" from Andre Renaud and rewritten chgrp/chown which |
| 36 | now support the full set of posix flags, plus a little work on the test |
| 37 | suite and some more header tweaks towards eventual compatability with the |
| 38 | musl libc.</p> |
| 39 | |
| 40 | <p>The todo list runneth over, but "release early, release often", so here |
| 41 | it is. The roadmap and documentation are a bit behind, and I've got ~40 |
| 42 | pending submissions to review. I need to catch up...</p> |
| 43 | </span> |
| 44 | |
| 45 | <hr><b>June 12, 2012</b> |
| 46 | <blockquote><p>"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that |
| 47 | he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the |
| 48 | wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was |
| 49 | muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had |
| 50 | always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely |
| 51 | the same reasons." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
| 52 | |
| 53 | <p>It's well past time for <a href=downloads/toybox-0.3.0.tar.bz2>toybox 0.3.0</a>, |
| 54 | so here it is, based |
| 55 | on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/595>commit 595</a>, and the |
| 56 | statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt binaries</a> should |
| 57 | actually be statically linked this time (thanks Ashwini Sharma for spotting |
| 58 | that).</p> |
| 59 | |
| 60 | <p>It's hard to figure out where to cut a release, because development |
| 61 | doesn't stop. "Long before now" is the obviuos answer, of course. |
| 62 | The project's maintainer also moved house during this development cycle, which |
| 63 | threw things off for a bit (so many boxes). Releases should hopefully be a bit |
| 64 | more frequent from here on.</p> |
| 65 | |
| 66 | <p>The big things Rob worked on this time were the new dirtree (directory |
| 67 | tree traversal) infrastructure, and a complete rewrite of ls using that |
| 68 | which should now implement all 26 posix options.</p> |
| 69 | |
| 70 | <p>Georgi Chorbadzhiyski added printenv, whoami, mkdir, mkfifo, chmod, chown, |
| 71 | chgrp, and uniq. He also added fraction and extension support to sleep (so if |
| 72 | you need a quarter-second sleep, it can do that now), and fixed a build bug |
| 73 | on slackware.</p> |
| 74 | |
| 75 | <p>Daniel Walter contributed a string to mode_t parser (in use by chmod and |
| 76 | mkdir -m). Ilya Kuzmich contributed comm. Elie De Brauwer added mountpoint, |
| 77 | vmstat, logname, login, and mktemp. Kevin Chase did some portability cleanups. |
| 78 | Pere Orga fixed some documentation.</p> |
| 79 | |
| 80 | <p>The "tac" and "clear" commands are now normal commands instead of shell |
| 81 | wrappers, and the header #includes have been cleaned up a bit to remove |
| 82 | deprecated functions and attempt to increase compatability with the bionic and |
| 83 | musl C libraries, "tail" should now use lseek() for large files, and "id" got |
| 84 | some cleanups and bugfixes.</p> |
| 85 | |
| 86 | <p>The new TOYBOX_FLOAT configuration option selects whether or not |
| 87 | to include floating point support (for embedded targets where that's |
| 88 | problematic).</p> |
| 89 | |
| 90 | <p>Several random bugfixes: unshare() might actually build portably now, |
| 91 | yes 'n' | cp -i should no longer bypass stdin and prompt via the tty, the |
| 92 | SUID support no longer drops permissions going through the toybox |
| 93 | multiplexer command, and a bugfix to xargs -0 means it should no longer |
| 94 | segfault. (I have a pending bug report about xargs not doing the full |
| 95 | posix whitespace handling that -0 obsoleted, but I'll deal with that next |
| 96 | release.)</p> |
| 97 | |
| 98 | <p>The build infrastructure is now automatically generating FLAG_ macros |
| 99 | for the options, but currently with the wrong names. Some more macro glue |
| 100 | is necessary, which I haven't quite figured out how to do yet.</p> |
| 101 | |
| 102 | <p>A defconfig toybox at the start of the $PATH has successfully built |
| 103 | Linux From Scratch (in my Aboriginal Linux project). The commands that |
| 104 | 'default n' in the config are often still broken, cleanup is ongoing. |
| 105 | (The new dirtree stuff broke several of them that haven't been converted |
| 106 | yet, but if I wait until everything works we won't have a release before |
| 107 | 1.0, so here's a checkpoint.)</p> |
| 108 | |
| 109 | |
Rob Landley | ed6ed62 | 2012-03-06 20:49:03 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | <hr><b>March 3, 2012</b> |
| 111 | |
| 112 | <blockquote><p>"They went unnoticed at Goonhilly, passed over Cape Canaveral |
| 113 | without a blip, and Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them. |
| 114 | Which was a pity, because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking |
| 115 | for all these years."</p></p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p> |
| 116 | </p></blockquote> |
| 117 | |
| 118 | <p>Here's <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.1.tar.bz2>toybox 0.2.1</a> based |
| 119 | on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/512>commit 512</a>. This |
| 120 | time around, there are statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt |
| 121 | binaries</a> for various embedded targets.</p> |
| 122 | |
| 123 | <p>It's been a busy few weeks, almost entirely due to new contributors. (I |
| 124 | have not quite been keeping up.)</p> |
| 125 | |
| 126 | <p>Elie De Brauwer contributed free, uptime, swapon, swapoff, lsmod, mknod, |
| 127 | insmod, rmmod, and fixed a bug in basename. Andre Renaud contributed ls, ln, |
| 128 | realpath, and hostname. Andres Heck contributed pidof and killall. Daniel |
| 129 | Walter wrote kill and extended id. Timothy Elliott contributed tail and tests |
| 130 | for cmp. Frank Bergmann sent a warning fix. Bryce Fricke added -i to cp. |
| 131 | Nathan McSween pointed out an optimization. Georgi Chorbadzhiyski fixed |
| 132 | cross compiling to work more reliably.</p> |
| 133 | |
| 134 | <p>(My own contribution this time around was just tightening up other people's |
| 135 | code, a build fix to unshare, some random bugfixes, and so on. My only new |
| 136 | code this time around was writing a bash replacement for the existing python |
| 137 | bloat-o-meter.)</p> |
| 138 | |
| 139 | <p>Last time (the 0.2.0 release) included the first pass at an id command from |
| 140 | Tim Bird, env and basename from Tryn Mirell, cmp and head from Timothy Elliott, |
| 141 | more bugfixes from Nathan McSween and Elie De Brauwer, and Luis Felipe Strano |
| 142 | Moraes did a first pass at the who command plus other bugfixes and |
| 143 | optimizations.</p> |
| 144 | |
| 145 | <p>(For that release I did xargs, cal, truncate, unlink, nohup, tty, wc, link, |
| 146 | dirname, unshare, and various infrastructure tweaks, but it took me 3 months |
| 147 | and those guys did their stuff in a week or so.)</p> |
| 148 | |
Rob Landley | e258af3 | 2008-01-05 18:09:49 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 149 | |
Rob Landley | d11ac70 | 2012-02-13 21:16:03 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 150 | <hr><b>February 12, 2012</b> |
| 151 | <blockquote><p> |
| 152 | "for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at |
| 153 | least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two |
| 154 | important respects..."</p> |
| 155 | <p> - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</p></blockquote> |
| 156 | |
| 157 | <p>Here's the first BSD licensed release, |
| 158 | <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.0.tar.bz2>toybox-0.2.0</a>, more a synchronization |
| 159 | point than anything particularly useful. 47 commands in a reasonably |
| 160 | ready-to-use state (what "make defconfig" builds), another ten or so partially |
| 161 | finished stubs ("make allyesconfig"), and several |
| 162 | patches pending on the mailing list I need to review and merge.</p> |
| 163 | |
| 164 | <p>More to come...</p> |
| 165 | |
Rob Landley | ce8a267 | 2012-02-02 07:27:05 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 166 | <hr> |
| 167 | <p><b>November 15, 2011</b> - Back from the dead, Toybox is now under a 2 |
| 168 | clause BSD license, and aiming to become the default command line |
| 169 | implementation of Android systems everywhere.</p> |
| 170 | |
| 171 | <p>More to come...</p> |
| 172 | |
| 173 | <hr> |
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Rob Landley | aba5170 | 2012-08-26 16:33:06 -0500 | [diff] [blame^] | 175 | <p><a href=oldnews.html>Old news</a> from before the relaunch.</p> |
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