[dev] stali and OpenBSD userland etc.

2010-04-10 Thread finkler
Hej there. I am eagerly anticipating advances in stali, and since updates are scarce I started to investigate in different matters of this kind and started to play with my humble attempt to create such a distro myself, just for fun. I read that the userland of stali is OpenBSD derived, I took the

[dev] Re: stali and OpenBSD userland etc.

2010-04-10 Thread finkler
On 04/10/10 14:08, Jacob Todd wrote: > Head can be replaced with a script that calls `sed nq`, where n is positive > integer. > Should I even provide a head script for the sake of compatibility, or should it simply be removed? How does stali intend to handle this? regards, Thomas

[dev] Re: stali and OpenBSD userland etc.

2010-04-10 Thread finkler
On 04/10/10 16:14, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:13 AM, finkler wrote: >> And this is what is missing in OBSD: >> chown > > having a hard time believing this > > I was kind of surprised myself, but I simply can't find it in their CVS t

[dev] Re: stali and OpenBSD userland etc.

2010-04-10 Thread finkler
On 04/10/10 17:32, markus schnalke wrote: > [2010-04-10 17:12] finkler >> On 04/10/10 16:14, Kurt H Maier wrote: >>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:13 AM, finkler wrote: >>>> And this is what is missing in OBSD: >>>> chown >>> >>> having a h

[dev] Re: stali and OpenBSD userland etc.

2010-04-14 Thread finkler
On 04/14/10 12:23, Claudio M. Alessi wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 09:29:10PM +0200, pancake wrote: >> I wrote tac in 9base a week ago... I would really prefer 9base before other >> alternatives if we can choose. Most of them are valid replacements > +1 > > I would prefer plan 9 userland again

[dev] Re: stali and OpenBSD userland etc.

2010-04-18 Thread finkler
On 04/15/10 08:39, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > android isn't POSIX compliant and is probably more wide spread now > then Linux desktops... ;) > While I agree with usability over standard fetishism, it isn't really the case that many Linux desktops are POSIX compliant. Thomas

[dev] Re: sta.li progress

2010-10-27 Thread finkler
SD libc to begin with. Remove all the macro crap and just support c99 and POSIX, which is one of the few cases where it might actually be worth the hassle to follow such a standard. Then again it seems backward to put so much effort in an outdated standard. I don't really know, any thoughts on this? regards, finkler

[dev] Re: sta.li progress

2010-10-27 Thread finkler
On 10/28/10 01:16, Jacob Todd wrote: > If someone was going to create a "suckless" libc, they shouldn't support > posix. start with the plan 9 libraries instead of the obsd while you're at > it. > I understand that the idea is to compile other shit, not suckless software, or else we could just use

[dev] Re: sta.li progress

2010-10-28 Thread finkler
On 10/28/10 01:39, Jacob Todd wrote: > Go uses the plan 9 libs. > While I really like Go, it is still a niche project, and a 2MB+ basename executable is not really suckless.

[dev] Re: sta.li progress

2010-10-29 Thread finkler
On 10/28/10 15:38, Jacob Todd wrote: > How? It's statically linked iirc against the systems libs. http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/browse_thread/thread/690760527da60e57/882a60388fab96a1

[dev] Re: sta.li progress

2010-10-29 Thread finkler
On 10/29/10 15:06, Jacob Todd wrote: > I've read it but don't see how it pertains to what we're talking about. > On Oct 29, 2010 7:50 AM, "finkler" wrote: >> On 10/28/10 15:38, Jacob Todd wrote: >>> How? It's statically linked iirc against the s

[dev] Re: musl libc

2011-02-16 Thread finkler
On 02/12/11 19:48, pmarin wrote: > Have anyone tried it? > http://www.etalabs.net/musl/ > > Looks promising!