On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 2:30 AM enh <[email protected]> wrote: > i haven't, no. i don't know anyone who works on coreutils,
They probably have a mailing list. > and assumed it would be easier if both busybox > and toybox already supported the same syntax. Yeah... What I worry about is gratuitous divergences we create. E.g. _every_ clone_ of netcat seems to "extend" and "improve" on the original nc version 1.10 in non-compatible ways. With the natural result of people not really using nc in their scripts when they need them to work _the same_ on any Linux distro. This is excusable for a 20 year old CS student who did not yet step on landmines of that sort. We should know better. Compatibility is important. Insufficient compat was holding back Unix-like OSes for decades. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
