On Tuesday 11 November 2008 22:00:46 Philip Guo wrote: > > You opened your bugs as "standards compliance" without referencing a > > standard. > > sorry again, this is my first time posting on this list and in the busybox > bug database :)
Not trying to discourage you. Testing is never a bad thing... :) > > Beyond that, lots of the behavior in coreutils is sheer bloat. I looked > > at several of your things and you're asking us to make the code bigger, > > in ways > > not required by any standard, in order to provide features of negligible > > utility. > > i totally agree, and perhaps i shouldn't have placed those records in the > bug database in the first place, and instead simply emailed them as > questions. It's good that you reported them (thank you for that), and it's nice to look at them. There are a few valid bugs hiding in there (not returning error for file not found is probably our bad). But saying "no" is a valid option for a lot of it. > i can see now that putting them in the database implies that i > thought they were bugs in busybox, which i didn't mean at all. i thought > it would be a good location to have discussions about whether those are > actually bugs. The mailing list is good for discussion. The bug tracker is for tracking issues so they don't get forgotten if we aren't going to fix them immediately. > > In fact, in some cases: > > http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=6174 > > > > You're asking us to implement undocumented behavior that looks like a bug > > to > > me. You asked the coreutils to unset a variable, you gave it an insane > > variable name (environment variable names shouldn't have = in them), and > > it did something other than what you asked. The man page doesn't suggest > > env has the behavior you found, in fact it says it _won't_ do that. > > yep, i agree; that seems like a weird thing for coreutils to do, and i will > report this issue to them; i'm fairly certain that busybox is correct in > this case. Yeah, so was I, but Denys went ahead and changed it anyway. *shrug* Rob _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
