The OpenSolaris Busybox project ( http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/busybox) is now live.
This project is about providing busybox(www.busybox.net) equivalent on OpenSolaris. The project will use the code-base of ON. Where multiple command sources are present (ex: /usr/bin,/usr/xpg4/bin,etc), the project would choose the source code base that is most standards compliant and aware of multibyte characters. The short term goal is to come out with two outputs: * Shell integration of stand-alone commands in a modular manner. ksh93 will be the shell of choice for the same. * All the identified commands housed in a stand alone executable. Future possibilities include: * Optimizing the libraries for size and resources, generating customized libc with reduced functionality. * Providing options to customize the set of features included in the commands in the interest of minimization. Any feedback is welcome. The project development related discussions will happen on the mailing list "busybox-dev at opensolaris.org". Discussions of wider interest will happen on the " appliances-discuss at opensolaris.org". regards Shiv Moinak Ghosh Roland Mainz Shivakumar GN -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/attachments/20070412/51cff9b0/attachment.html>
