On 4/11/19 5:52 PM, enh wrote: >>> (in general the other direction is dangerous too, but in this specific >>> case i'm pretty sure no-one wants to change tapes on Android or during >>> an AOSP build --- though you'd be surprised by some of the requests we >>> do get from folks who don't value hermetic builds quite as much as we >>> do!) >> >> If they ask here, I'll take it into consideration. :) > > aye, but not for long... the number #1 request is perl :-)
Have you tried offering them lua? :) >> *shrug* Pick a name and I'll rename it, not tied to that. > > i didn't have any particularly good suggestions --restrict-paths? > --restrict-directory? How about tar -D which is an illegal option in ubuntu 14.04. (Yes, I need to upgrade...) >> (I note that gnu/dammit -a is "autodetect compression type" and busybox -a is >> "lzma", which was added after my time on the project. I.E. I didn't start >> this...) > > well, this is why i don't like adding new short options --- collisions > are almost certain. (although, yes, even for long options some names > are more tempting than others...) Yeah but if their implementation's 20 years old and I had the short option name first... >> Rob Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
