On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 5:03 PM Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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? :)
(lua is actually in the tree, but not for the host.) > >> *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...) please, no! leave the short option space alone. > >> (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... that would be a stronger argument if you were actually going to POSIX with this stuff. the trouble is that they _do_... > >> Rob > > Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
