Rob Landley | 589f5cd | 2010-01-05 10:41:52 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | <!--#include file="header.html" --> |
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Rob Landley | ed6ed62 | 2012-03-06 20:49:03 -0600 | [diff] [blame^] | 3 | <h2>See <a href=roadmap.html>roadmap</a> for current and planned |
| 4 | command list.</h2> |
Rob Landley | ce8a267 | 2012-02-02 07:27:05 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | |
Rob Landley | e258af3 | 2008-01-05 18:09:49 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | <h2>News</h2> |
Rob Landley | ed6ed62 | 2012-03-06 20:49:03 -0600 | [diff] [blame^] | 7 | <hr><b>March 3, 2012</b> |
| 8 | |
| 9 | <blockquote><p>"They went unnoticed at Goonhilly, passed over Cape Canaveral |
| 10 | without a blip, and Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them. |
| 11 | Which was a pity, because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking |
| 12 | for all these years."</p></p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p> |
| 13 | </p></blockquote> |
| 14 | |
| 15 | <p>Here's <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.1.tar.bz2>toybox 0.2.1</a> based |
| 16 | on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/512>commit 512</a>. This |
| 17 | time around, there are statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt |
| 18 | binaries</a> for various embedded targets.</p> |
| 19 | |
| 20 | <p>It's been a busy few weeks, almost entirely due to new contributors. (I |
| 21 | have not quite been keeping up.)</p> |
| 22 | |
| 23 | <p>Elie De Brauwer contributed free, uptime, swapon, swapoff, lsmod, mknod, |
| 24 | insmod, rmmod, and fixed a bug in basename. Andre Renaud contributed ls, ln, |
| 25 | realpath, and hostname. Andres Heck contributed pidof and killall. Daniel |
| 26 | Walter wrote kill and extended id. Timothy Elliott contributed tail and tests |
| 27 | for cmp. Frank Bergmann sent a warning fix. Bryce Fricke added -i to cp. |
| 28 | Nathan McSween pointed out an optimization. Georgi Chorbadzhiyski fixed |
| 29 | cross compiling to work more reliably.</p> |
| 30 | |
| 31 | <p>(My own contribution this time around was just tightening up other people's |
| 32 | code, a build fix to unshare, some random bugfixes, and so on. My only new |
| 33 | code this time around was writing a bash replacement for the existing python |
| 34 | bloat-o-meter.)</p> |
| 35 | |
| 36 | <p>Last time (the 0.2.0 release) included the first pass at an id command from |
| 37 | Tim Bird, env and basename from Tryn Mirell, cmp and head from Timothy Elliott, |
| 38 | more bugfixes from Nathan McSween and Elie De Brauwer, and Luis Felipe Strano |
| 39 | Moraes did a first pass at the who command plus other bugfixes and |
| 40 | optimizations.</p> |
| 41 | |
| 42 | <p>(For that release I did xargs, cal, truncate, unlink, nohup, tty, wc, link, |
| 43 | dirname, unshare, and various infrastructure tweaks, but it took me 3 months |
| 44 | and those guys did their stuff in a week or so.)</p> |
| 45 | |
Rob Landley | e258af3 | 2008-01-05 18:09:49 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | |
Rob Landley | d11ac70 | 2012-02-13 21:16:03 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | <hr><b>February 12, 2012</b> |
| 48 | <blockquote><p> |
| 49 | "for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at |
| 50 | least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two |
| 51 | important respects..."</p> |
| 52 | <p> - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</p></blockquote> |
| 53 | |
| 54 | <p>Here's the first BSD licensed release, |
| 55 | <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.0.tar.bz2>toybox-0.2.0</a>, more a synchronization |
| 56 | point than anything particularly useful. 47 commands in a reasonably |
| 57 | ready-to-use state (what "make defconfig" builds), another ten or so partially |
| 58 | finished stubs ("make allyesconfig"), and several |
| 59 | patches pending on the mailing list I need to review and merge.</p> |
| 60 | |
| 61 | <p>More to come...</p> |
| 62 | |
Rob Landley | ce8a267 | 2012-02-02 07:27:05 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | <hr> |
| 64 | <p><b>November 15, 2011</b> - Back from the dead, Toybox is now under a 2 |
| 65 | clause BSD license, and aiming to become the default command line |
| 66 | implementation of Android systems everywhere.</p> |
| 67 | |
| 68 | <p>More to come...</p> |
| 69 | |
| 70 | <hr> |
Rob Landley | 589f5cd | 2010-01-05 10:41:52 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | <p><b>December 1, 2009</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.1.0.tar.bz2>toybox-0.1.0</a> is out.</p> |
| 72 | |
| 73 | <p>This release is a couple build fixes and another bugfix to patch.</p> |
| 74 | |
| 75 | <hr> |
Rob Landley | 90e4213 | 2009-04-17 05:34:59 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | <p><b>April 17, 2009</b> - Another bugfix release, |
Rob Landley | 05e451d | 2009-10-23 17:42:13 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 77 | <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.9.2.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.9.2</a>, off by one allocation error in patch.</p> |
Rob Landley | 90e4213 | 2009-04-17 05:34:59 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | |
| 79 | <p>(Darn fiddly command, innit?)</p> |
| 80 | |
Rob Landley | 589f5cd | 2010-01-05 10:41:52 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | <hr> |
Rob Landley | 25afd65 | 2009-03-29 21:55:27 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | <p><b>March 29, 2009</b> - Released |
Rob Landley | 05e451d | 2009-10-23 17:42:13 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 83 | <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.9.1.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.9.1</a> which is a bugfix |
Rob Landley | 25afd65 | 2009-03-29 21:55:27 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | release for issues with the patch command.</p> |
| 85 | |
Rob Landley | 90e4213 | 2009-04-17 05:34:59 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 86 | <p>The project is currently on hold while the developers learn Lua and |
Rob Landley | 25afd65 | 2009-03-29 21:55:27 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 87 | decide whether or not to port the whole thing to that language. |
| 88 | (Also note: the mailing list moved. See the links on the left. You'll |
| 89 | have to resubscribe.)</p> |
| 90 | |
Rob Landley | 589f5cd | 2010-01-05 10:41:52 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | <hr> |
Rob Landley | 121582e | 2009-03-28 23:25:47 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 92 | <p><b>January 29, 2009</b> - Released |
Rob Landley | 05e451d | 2009-10-23 17:42:13 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 93 | <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.9.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.9.tar.bz2</a> which is a minor packaging |
Rob Landley | 121582e | 2009-03-28 23:25:47 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 94 | fix for 0.0.8. (The previous release tarball contained a prebuilt x86-64 |
| 95 | kconfig/conf file, because the release script ran defconfig to |
| 96 | pregenerate help.h, and didn't run make clean afterwards.) The actual source |
| 97 | code is identical to the previous release.</p> |
| 98 | |
Rob Landley | 589f5cd | 2010-01-05 10:41:52 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 99 | <hr> |
Rob Landley | 05e451d | 2009-10-23 17:42:13 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 100 | <p><b>January 20, 2009</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.8.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.8</a> |
Rob Landley | 933d7b6 | 2009-01-19 22:59:21 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 101 | adds the uname, cksum, and mkswapfs commands.</p> |
| 102 | |
| 103 | <p>This uname implementation is cross compile friendly: when built as a 32 bit |
| 104 | binary on an x86_64 host, it reports "i686" to confuse autoconf less.</p> |
| 105 | |
| 106 | <p>This cksum has several extra command line options which can be used to |
| 107 | produce different cksum variants based on the same crc32 algorithm. For |
| 108 | example, the broadcom "trx" image packaging uses a little endian crc, |
| 109 | pre-inverted instead of post-inverted, and does not include the length. |
| 110 | (Without these arguments, it produces the normal SUSv4 cksum output.)</p> |
| 111 | |
| 112 | <p>It also upgrades netcat with a server mode (-l option) and fixes several |
| 113 | netcat bugs. It also fixed multiple bugs in "patch", works around a |
| 114 | reiserfs bug in cp, and oneit can reboot on exit more reliably.</p> |
| 115 | |
Rob Landley | d1aaa0a | 2008-11-12 13:56:49 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 116 | <p><b>November 12, 2008</b> - |
| 117 | <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.7.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.7</a> |
| 118 | adds sort and tee commands, upgrades the internal option parsing logic and the |
| 119 | test suite, and numerous bugfixes (bunzip, chroot, cat, patch).</p> |
| 120 | |
Rob Landley | fe0f3d5 | 2008-05-26 16:07:16 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 121 | <p><b>May 26, 2008</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.6.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.6</a> |
| 122 | adds cat, rmdir, and seq. Bugfixes to cp and a new -v option. Updates mdev to |
| 123 | work with the 2.6.25 kernel. Updates patch to knows that a file dated |
| 124 | 1969-12-31 means it doesn't exist, and to fail if a file it needs to create |
| 125 | already exists. Command line option parsing can now handle things like "echo |
| 126 | -nex" vs "echo -ne". Several updates to the test suite (run scripts/test.sh), |
| 127 | and some build fixes.</p> |
| 128 | |
| 129 | <p> |
Rob Landley | 589f5cd | 2010-01-05 10:41:52 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | <hr> |
Rob Landley | fe0f3d5 | 2008-05-26 16:07:16 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | <p><b>March 29, 2008</b> - |
| 132 | Time to release <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.5.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.5</a>, with |
Rob Landley | a95475b | 2008-03-29 17:27:16 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 133 | new commands cp and chvt and several bugfixes.</p> |
| 134 | |
| 135 | <p>More makefile targets: "make test" runs the test suite (which needs more test |
| 136 | scripts), and make install/install_flat/uninstall/uninstall_flat calls |
| 137 | make/install.sh (with options --long --symlink --force --uninstall depending |
| 138 | on the context).</p> |
| 139 | |
| 140 | <p>Most of the work has been behind the scenes, namely a significant rewrite of |
| 141 | the build logic so adding each new command consists of adding a single C file to |
| 142 | the "toys" directory, eliminating the need to touch any other files. |
| 143 | There are specially formatted comments at the top of the C file to generate |
| 144 | the other files, see toys/hello.c for an example. (See generated/README.txt |
| 145 | and <a href=code.html>code.html</a> for details.)</p> |
| 146 | |
Rob Landley | e258af3 | 2008-01-05 18:09:49 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 147 | <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. |
| 148 | The new applets this time around include basename, chroot, dirname, dmesg, |
| 149 | help, mkfifo, netcat, patch, sha1sum, touch, and tty.</p> |
| 150 | |
| 151 | <p>Note that this "touch" includes -l to set the length, which can truncate |
| 152 | a file or create a commpletely sparse file, good for filesystem images.</p> |
| 153 | |
| 154 | <p>Expect the next release in about 6 months.</p> |
| 155 | |
| 156 | <p><b>December 12, 2007</b> - Updated the list of implemented applications, |
| 157 | put up a <a href=todo.txt>todo list</a> and <a href=code.html>infrastructure |
| 158 | documentation</a>. Expect another release towards the end of the month.</p> |
| 159 | |
| 160 | <p><b>June 18, 2007</b> - Put out |
| 161 | <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2</a> since it's |
| 162 | been too long since I did something like that. This one implements |
| 163 | catv, count, df, echo, false, oneit, pwd, sleep, sync, toysh, true, which, |
| 164 | and yes (which is what "make defconfig" enables). There are several other |
| 165 | commands not enabled by defconfig, because they don't really work yet.</p> |
| 166 | |
| 167 | <p>Most of the general infrastructure's there now, although lots of tweaking |
| 168 | and optimizing is still needed. The test suite is skeletal and not entirely |
| 169 | checked in yet, but I'm working on that.</p> |
| 170 | |
| 171 | <p>I don't have nearly as much time to work on this as I'd like, but I'm making |
| 172 | a little progress.</p> |
| 173 | |
| 174 | <p><b>January 31, 2007</b> - |
| 175 | Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.2.tar.bz2>0.0.2 release</a>. |
| 176 | Implements count, yes, pwd, echo, bzcat, catv, oneit, and an unfinished |
| 177 | skeleton of mke2fs. Adds argument parsing logic and bunzip code to library. |
| 178 | Now configured with menuconfig. Adds "make baseline" and "make bloatcheck" |
| 179 | using Matt Mackall's bloat-o-meter, and scripts/showasm.</p> |
| 180 | |
| 181 | <p>Screwing up the web page a bit, adding an index bar along the side |
| 182 | which doesn't properly connect up to anything yet. (Busy implementing |
| 183 | mke2fs and gene2fs.)</p> |
| 184 | |
| 185 | <p><b>October 30, 2006</b> - |
| 186 | Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.1.tar.bz2>0.0.1 release</a>. Implements |
| 187 | df, a skeletal toysh, and some library functions. Proof of concept, really.</p> |
| 188 | |
| 189 | <p><b>September 7, 2006</b> - |
| 190 | Project launched, first commit to mercurial archive.</p> |
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