On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 11:56:23 -0500 Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> wrote:
> I infer from the existence of sbase and ubase that the other > alternatives that already exist (e.g. busybox, toybox, GNU) are > considered too full of suck. Is that right? There are always certain levels of suckness. Busybox for instance is okay for what it is made for (one binary for everything). However, the shortcomings are a rather big codebase (but to be fair for a reason) and the license (GPL). > I would guess that the GNU utilities are considerd too bloated. What > are the perceived shortcomings of busybox and toybox? What about Plan 9 > from User Space? There's nothing wrong with busybox or toybox. I don't know Plan 9 FUS well enough to give you a remark here. There are small differences and I see sbase and ubase as a playground for new ideas and solving problems as suckless as possible. Take this example (date): sbase/date -d 1 --> Thu Jan 1 01:00:01 1970 busybox/date -d 1 --> date: invalid date '1' Converting UNIX-time is much more intuitive. But there are many more things. Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <d...@frign.de>
