Dear Florian Fainelli, On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:55:21 -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > On my side, I fully support Waldemar's fork. The last uClibc release is > > more than 2 years old, and Bernhard has never been answering to *any* > > of the e-mails asking to do a release, sent since September 2013 or so. > > At this point, I think there is absolutely no hope to see any action > > being done by the existing uClibc community in terms of doing stable > > releases, and this case, the lever that open-source licenses provide is > > simple: fork. That's what Waldemar has done, and it's good. > > To speak my mind, I think uClibc has no future in the next 2 or 3 > years, musl is a much more active project, with multiple embedded > projects starting to use it, on the other end, (e)glibc has remedied > its own problems and its useful again. > > No MMU architectures are becoming less and less popular, and the cost > for larger flash storage mediums keeps decreasing, so all these key > selling features (noMMU support and reduced memory footprint) that > uClibc has will soon no longer be any useful to it. I don't really think noMMU architectures are becoming less and less popular. There is actually a whole new generation of Cortex-M3/Cortex-M4 based processors that are capable of running Linux and that offer really nice power management capabilities. > Bottom line is, I believe uClibc is a (relatively speaking) dead > project already, forking it might be useful to keep the existing user > base alive, but I expect all of them to transition to something active > and maintained, whether that's glibc or musl. I also agree that probably not that much is going to appear in uClibc, especially with the currently slow release cycle. However, a C library is something that needs to be maintained (as the significant number of uClibc patches that we all carry around indicates), and therefore having a central upstream that is alive remains useful. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
