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| author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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| date | Mon, 26 May 2008 16:07:16 -0500 |
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| 3 <h2>Currently implemented commands:</h2> | |
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5 basename, cat, catv, chroot, chvt, count, cp, df, dirname, dmesg, echo, false, |
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6 hello, help, mkfifo, nc, netcat, oneit, patch, pwd, rmdir, sh, sha1sum, sleep, |
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7 sync, touch, toysh, true, tty, which, yes |
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10 <p>[Commands in square brackets are in source control, but not in the most recent |
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15 <p><b>May 26, 2008</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.6.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.6</a> |
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16 adds cat, rmdir, and seq. Bugfixes to cp and a new -v option. Updates mdev to |
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17 work with the 2.6.25 kernel. Updates patch to knows that a file dated |
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18 1969-12-31 means it doesn't exist, and to fail if a file it needs to create |
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20 -nex" vs "echo -ne". Several updates to the test suite (run scripts/test.sh), |
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21 and some build fixes.</p> |
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24 <p><b>March 29, 2008</b> - |
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25 Time to release <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.5.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.5</a>, with |
| 277 | 26 new commands cp and chvt and several bugfixes.</p> |
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| 28 <p>More makefile targets: "make test" runs the test suite (which needs more test | |
| 29 scripts), and make install/install_flat/uninstall/uninstall_flat calls | |
| 30 make/install.sh (with options --long --symlink --force --uninstall depending | |
| 31 on the context).</p> | |
| 32 | |
| 33 <p>Most of the work has been behind the scenes, namely a significant rewrite of | |
| 34 the build logic so adding each new command consists of adding a single C file to | |
| 35 the "toys" directory, eliminating the need to touch any other files. | |
| 36 There are specially formatted comments at the top of the C file to generate | |
| 37 the other files, see toys/hello.c for an example. (See generated/README.txt | |
| 38 and <a href=code.html>code.html</a> for details.)</p> | |
| 39 | |
| 226 | 40 <p><b>January 2, 2008</b> - And <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.4.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.4.tar.bz2</a> is out. |
| 41 The new applets this time around include basename, chroot, dirname, dmesg, | |
| 42 help, mkfifo, netcat, patch, sha1sum, touch, and tty.</p> | |
| 43 | |
| 44 <p>Note that this "touch" includes -l to set the length, which can truncate | |
| 45 a file or create a commpletely sparse file, good for filesystem images.</p> | |
| 46 | |
| 47 <p>Expect the next release in about 6 months.</p> | |
| 48 | |
| 49 <p><b>December 12, 2007</b> - Updated the list of implemented applications, | |
| 50 put up a <a href=todo.txt>todo list</a> and <a href=code.html>infrastructure | |
| 51 documentation</a>. Expect another release towards the end of the month.</p> | |
| 52 | |
| 53 <p><b>June 18, 2007</b> - Put out | |
| 54 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2</a> since it's | |
| 55 been too long since I did something like that. This one implements | |
| 56 catv, count, df, echo, false, oneit, pwd, sleep, sync, toysh, true, which, | |
| 57 and yes (which is what "make defconfig" enables). There are several other | |
| 58 commands not enabled by defconfig, because they don't really work yet.</p> | |
| 59 | |
| 60 <p>Most of the general infrastructure's there now, although lots of tweaking | |
| 61 and optimizing is still needed. The test suite is skeletal and not entirely | |
| 62 checked in yet, but I'm working on that.</p> | |
| 63 | |
| 64 <p>I don't have nearly as much time to work on this as I'd like, but I'm making | |
| 65 a little progress.</p> | |
| 66 | |
| 67 <p><b>January 31, 2007</b> - | |
| 68 Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.2.tar.bz2>0.0.2 release</a>. | |
| 69 Implements count, yes, pwd, echo, bzcat, catv, oneit, and an unfinished | |
| 70 skeleton of mke2fs. Adds argument parsing logic and bunzip code to library. | |
| 71 Now configured with menuconfig. Adds "make baseline" and "make bloatcheck" | |
| 72 using Matt Mackall's bloat-o-meter, and scripts/showasm.</p> | |
| 73 | |
| 74 <p>Screwing up the web page a bit, adding an index bar along the side | |
| 75 which doesn't properly connect up to anything yet. (Busy implementing | |
| 76 mke2fs and gene2fs.)</p> | |
| 77 | |
| 78 <p><b>October 30, 2006</b> - | |
| 79 Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.1.tar.bz2>0.0.1 release</a>. Implements | |
| 80 df, a skeletal toysh, and some library functions. Proof of concept, really.</p> | |
| 81 | |
| 82 <p><b>September 7, 2006</b> - | |
| 83 Project launched, first commit to mercurial archive.</p> | |
| 84 <!--#include file="footer.html" --> |