Re: A good scripting language for busybox?

2017-03-18 Thread Doug Clapp
With respect to the message from Pavel Aronsky on 03/17/2017 11:20 AM: --- Apologies for maybe a wild or off-topic question. After dealing with quite a few products with busybox and its ash shell used as the primary scripting language, I'd

Re: A good scripting language for busybox?

2017-03-17 Thread Daniel Thompson
On 17/03/17 15:20, Pavel Aronsky wrote: Apologies for maybe a wild or off-topic question. After dealing with quite a few products with busybox and its ash shell used as the primary scripting language, I'd like to ask you, busybox experts: what are alternatives? This page:

Re: A good scripting language for busybox?

2017-03-17 Thread Kang-Che Sung
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:20 PM, Pavel Aronsky wrote: > Apologies for maybe a wild or off-topic question. > After dealing with quite a few products with busybox and its ash shell used > as the primary scripting language, I'd like to ask you, busybox experts: > what are

Re: A good scripting language for busybox?

2017-03-17 Thread Pavel A
Thanks for the suggestion. I am not familiar with yocto. If they can cross compile Python (that is very hard, as google results show), it would be great. I'll look at it. Regards, Pavel A > On 17 Mar 2017, at 17:23, Laszlo Papp wrote: > > Why do you need a scripting

Re: A good scripting language for busybox?

2017-03-17 Thread Laszlo Papp
Why do you need a scripting language in the busybox project? Cannot you just generate the platform with things like a small subset of python using Yocto or something similar? On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Pavel Aronsky wrote: > Apologies for maybe a wild or

A good scripting language for busybox?

2017-03-17 Thread Pavel Aronsky
Apologies for maybe a wild or off-topic question. After dealing with quite a few products with busybox and its ash shell used as the primary scripting language, I'd like to ask you, busybox experts: what are alternatives? This page: https://busybox.net/tinyutils.html - mentions Lua and