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Announce 0.0.8 release.
| author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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| date | Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:59:21 -0600 |
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| 3 <h2>Currently implemented commands:</h2> | |
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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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| 226 | 13 <h2>News</h2> |
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| 343 | 15 <p><b>January 20, 2009</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.8</a>toybox 0.0.8</a> |
| 16 adds the uname, cksum, and mkswapfs commands.</p> | |
| 17 | |
| 18 <p>This uname implementation is cross compile friendly: when built as a 32 bit | |
| 19 binary on an x86_64 host, it reports "i686" to confuse autoconf less.</p> | |
| 20 | |
| 21 <p>This cksum has several extra command line options which can be used to | |
| 22 produce different cksum variants based on the same crc32 algorithm. For | |
| 23 example, the broadcom "trx" image packaging uses a little endian crc, | |
| 24 pre-inverted instead of post-inverted, and does not include the length. | |
| 25 (Without these arguments, it produces the normal SUSv4 cksum output.)</p> | |
| 26 | |
| 27 <p>It also upgrades netcat with a server mode (-l option) and fixes several | |
| 28 netcat bugs. It also fixed multiple bugs in "patch", works around a | |
| 29 reiserfs bug in cp, and oneit can reboot on exit more reliably.</p> | |
| 30 | |
| 319 | 31 <p><b>November 12, 2008</b> - |
| 32 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.7.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.7</a> | |
| 33 adds sort and tee commands, upgrades the internal option parsing logic and the | |
| 34 test suite, and numerous bugfixes (bunzip, chroot, cat, patch).</p> | |
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36 <p><b>May 26, 2008</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.6.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.6</a> |
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37 adds cat, rmdir, and seq. Bugfixes to cp and a new -v option. Updates mdev to |
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38 work with the 2.6.25 kernel. Updates patch to knows that a file dated |
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39 1969-12-31 means it doesn't exist, and to fail if a file it needs to create |
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40 already exists. Command line option parsing can now handle things like "echo |
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41 -nex" vs "echo -ne". Several updates to the test suite (run scripts/test.sh), |
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45 <p><b>March 29, 2008</b> - |
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46 Time to release <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.5.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.5</a>, with |
| 277 | 47 new commands cp and chvt and several bugfixes.</p> |
| 48 | |
| 49 <p>More makefile targets: "make test" runs the test suite (which needs more test | |
| 50 scripts), and make install/install_flat/uninstall/uninstall_flat calls | |
| 51 make/install.sh (with options --long --symlink --force --uninstall depending | |
| 52 on the context).</p> | |
| 53 | |
| 54 <p>Most of the work has been behind the scenes, namely a significant rewrite of | |
| 55 the build logic so adding each new command consists of adding a single C file to | |
| 56 the "toys" directory, eliminating the need to touch any other files. | |
| 57 There are specially formatted comments at the top of the C file to generate | |
| 58 the other files, see toys/hello.c for an example. (See generated/README.txt | |
| 59 and <a href=code.html>code.html</a> for details.)</p> | |
| 60 | |
| 226 | 61 <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. |
| 62 The new applets this time around include basename, chroot, dirname, dmesg, | |
| 63 help, mkfifo, netcat, patch, sha1sum, touch, and tty.</p> | |
| 64 | |
| 65 <p>Note that this "touch" includes -l to set the length, which can truncate | |
| 66 a file or create a commpletely sparse file, good for filesystem images.</p> | |
| 67 | |
| 68 <p>Expect the next release in about 6 months.</p> | |
| 69 | |
| 70 <p><b>December 12, 2007</b> - Updated the list of implemented applications, | |
| 71 put up a <a href=todo.txt>todo list</a> and <a href=code.html>infrastructure | |
| 72 documentation</a>. Expect another release towards the end of the month.</p> | |
| 73 | |
| 74 <p><b>June 18, 2007</b> - Put out | |
| 75 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2</a> since it's | |
| 76 been too long since I did something like that. This one implements | |
| 77 catv, count, df, echo, false, oneit, pwd, sleep, sync, toysh, true, which, | |
| 78 and yes (which is what "make defconfig" enables). There are several other | |
| 79 commands not enabled by defconfig, because they don't really work yet.</p> | |
| 80 | |
| 81 <p>Most of the general infrastructure's there now, although lots of tweaking | |
| 82 and optimizing is still needed. The test suite is skeletal and not entirely | |
| 83 checked in yet, but I'm working on that.</p> | |
| 84 | |
| 85 <p>I don't have nearly as much time to work on this as I'd like, but I'm making | |
| 86 a little progress.</p> | |
| 87 | |
| 88 <p><b>January 31, 2007</b> - | |
| 89 Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.2.tar.bz2>0.0.2 release</a>. | |
| 90 Implements count, yes, pwd, echo, bzcat, catv, oneit, and an unfinished | |
| 91 skeleton of mke2fs. Adds argument parsing logic and bunzip code to library. | |
| 92 Now configured with menuconfig. Adds "make baseline" and "make bloatcheck" | |
| 93 using Matt Mackall's bloat-o-meter, and scripts/showasm.</p> | |
| 94 | |
| 95 <p>Screwing up the web page a bit, adding an index bar along the side | |
| 96 which doesn't properly connect up to anything yet. (Busy implementing | |
| 97 mke2fs and gene2fs.)</p> | |
| 98 | |
| 99 <p><b>October 30, 2006</b> - | |
| 100 Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.1.tar.bz2>0.0.1 release</a>. Implements | |
| 101 df, a skeletal toysh, and some library functions. Proof of concept, really.</p> | |
| 102 | |
| 103 <p><b>September 7, 2006</b> - | |
| 104 Project launched, first commit to mercurial archive.</p> | |
| 105 <!--#include file="footer.html" --> |