On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:11:41 +0000 (UTC) Jason Spiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> Over time, Android has gradually been copying more and more of the > NetBSD source code into the Git > repository which holds their "toolbox" command.[*] > > ^ [*]. See, for example, this change: > > <http://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/ > fd4c6b0a3a25921a9fe24691a695d715aecb6afe> > > I still prefer Toybox. For one thing, the "-h" help built into > various Toybox commands tends to be far > better. (Why is the "-h" help built into various NetBSD commands so > skimpy? I guess the developers > assume that all users have a manpage viewer installed. Well, Android > includes no such viewer.) > > I think that it would be unwise to wait until Toybox hits 1.0 before > trying to get Toybox into Android. > The longer the project waits, the better the NetBSD userland will be > integrated into Android and the more > accustomed the Android team will become to that userland's quirks. > > I humbly suggest that perhaps the best thing to do would be to visit > the Android mailing list today, and > to float the idea of getting _some_ parts of Toybox into Android. > Perhaps start by suggesting that > Toybox could provide some useful things that Android doesn't yet > include: for example, dos2unix, > unix2dos, nice, renice, sort, uniq, usleep, tac, tee, yes, and acpi. > > Once Toybox gets into Android, it might then be possible to convince > the Android maintainers to provide > symlinks from /system/bin to _all_ of the reasonably-finished parts > of Toybox. > > What do you think of my idea? > > Kind regards, This reminds me that I should pull my finger out and put my toybox installer on Play. Your idea requires evangelizing, something I am terrible at. So great idea, I just can't help with it. Good luck. -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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