On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 2:11 PM Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/20/21 12:50 PM, enh wrote: > > general idea. To be honest, making puppy eyes at him to use his work > under 0BSD > > and then cleaning it up to be a proper lib/tls.c that toybox and > busybox could > > share would be good. Busybox already has ) > > > > does that seem likely? > > If I ask nicely? I'd give it a 50/50 chance. (I'd also have to get > permission > from or clean out the contributions of at least two other people. Minor > bugfixes, but still.) > > Part of it is I dunno what he started with, so I dunno if he _can_ give me > a > license. > > If not, I'm not intimidated by writing my own but it's on the order of > writing > bzip2/deflate/sed. (And like _three_ sha3sums glued together.) More than a > month > of focus, lots of things before it on the todo list. > > > wasn't he the one who moved strace from BSD to GPL so we > > never took another update? > > Different guy. Strace is Dmitry Levin at altlinux.ru in Moscow. Denys > Vlasenko > is Ukranian and works for Red Hat's Czech office. > oops! in my defense, i haven't paid any attention to strace in years, and i guess your frequent busybox references mean that Denys has taken over that hash bucket in my head! > > * wget and curl are semi-interchangeable, but busybox only ever > implemented > > wget. Curl is more a library for programs to link against, with the > command line > > utility sort of an afterthought. > > > > yeah, libcurl is used for OTAs, but iirc you need to explicitly build in > > external/curl to get a curl binary; it's not available by default. i > don't > > remember whether there was a good reason for that, given that test > > infrastructure people have certainly asked for it. > > The embedded world standardized on wget because that's what busybox has > been > providing for over 20 years. In theory the curl binary is just a reskin of > the > same functionality and I could implement both, in practice wget is the one > I've > seen call for. > isn't the main difference that curl defaults to stdout which is really really annoying? :-) > Rob >
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