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| 529 | 7 <hr><b>March 3, 2012</b> |
| 8 | |
| 9 <blockquote><p>"They went unnoticed at Goonhilly, passed over Cape Canaveral | |
| 10 without a blip, and Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them. | |
| 11 Which was a pity, because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking | |
| 12 for all these years."</p></p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p> | |
| 13 </p></blockquote> | |
| 14 | |
| 15 <p>Here's <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.1.tar.bz2>toybox 0.2.1</a> based | |
| 16 on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/512>commit 512</a>. This | |
| 17 time around, there are statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt | |
| 18 binaries</a> for various embedded targets.</p> | |
| 19 | |
| 20 <p>It's been a busy few weeks, almost entirely due to new contributors. (I | |
| 21 have not quite been keeping up.)</p> | |
| 22 | |
| 23 <p>Elie De Brauwer contributed free, uptime, swapon, swapoff, lsmod, mknod, | |
| 24 insmod, rmmod, and fixed a bug in basename. Andre Renaud contributed ls, ln, | |
| 25 realpath, and hostname. Andres Heck contributed pidof and killall. Daniel | |
| 26 Walter wrote kill and extended id. Timothy Elliott contributed tail and tests | |
| 27 for cmp. Frank Bergmann sent a warning fix. Bryce Fricke added -i to cp. | |
| 28 Nathan McSween pointed out an optimization. Georgi Chorbadzhiyski fixed | |
| 29 cross compiling to work more reliably.</p> | |
| 30 | |
| 31 <p>(My own contribution this time around was just tightening up other people's | |
| 32 code, a build fix to unshare, some random bugfixes, and so on. My only new | |
| 33 code this time around was writing a bash replacement for the existing python | |
| 34 bloat-o-meter.)</p> | |
| 35 | |
| 36 <p>Last time (the 0.2.0 release) included the first pass at an id command from | |
| 37 Tim Bird, env and basename from Tryn Mirell, cmp and head from Timothy Elliott, | |
| 38 more bugfixes from Nathan McSween and Elie De Brauwer, and Luis Felipe Strano | |
| 39 Moraes did a first pass at the who command plus other bugfixes and | |
| 40 optimizations.</p> | |
| 41 | |
| 42 <p>(For that release I did xargs, cal, truncate, unlink, nohup, tty, wc, link, | |
| 43 dirname, unshare, and various infrastructure tweaks, but it took me 3 months | |
| 44 and those guys did their stuff in a week or so.)</p> | |
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| 64 <p><b>November 15, 2011</b> - Back from the dead, Toybox is now under a 2 | |
| 65 clause BSD license, and aiming to become the default command line | |
| 66 implementation of Android systems everywhere.</p> | |
| 67 | |
| 68 <p>More to come...</p> | |
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| 343 | 101 adds the uname, cksum, and mkswapfs commands.</p> |
| 102 | |
| 103 <p>This uname implementation is cross compile friendly: when built as a 32 bit | |
| 104 binary on an x86_64 host, it reports "i686" to confuse autoconf less.</p> | |
| 105 | |
| 106 <p>This cksum has several extra command line options which can be used to | |
| 107 produce different cksum variants based on the same crc32 algorithm. For | |
| 108 example, the broadcom "trx" image packaging uses a little endian crc, | |
| 109 pre-inverted instead of post-inverted, and does not include the length. | |
| 110 (Without these arguments, it produces the normal SUSv4 cksum output.)</p> | |
| 111 | |
| 112 <p>It also upgrades netcat with a server mode (-l option) and fixes several | |
| 113 netcat bugs. It also fixed multiple bugs in "patch", works around a | |
| 114 reiserfs bug in cp, and oneit can reboot on exit more reliably.</p> | |
| 115 | |
| 319 | 116 <p><b>November 12, 2008</b> - |
| 117 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.7.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.7</a> | |
| 118 adds sort and tee commands, upgrades the internal option parsing logic and the | |
| 119 test suite, and numerous bugfixes (bunzip, chroot, cat, patch).</p> | |
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132 Time to release <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.5.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.5</a>, with |
| 277 | 133 new commands cp and chvt and several bugfixes.</p> |
| 134 | |
| 135 <p>More makefile targets: "make test" runs the test suite (which needs more test | |
| 136 scripts), and make install/install_flat/uninstall/uninstall_flat calls | |
| 137 make/install.sh (with options --long --symlink --force --uninstall depending | |
| 138 on the context).</p> | |
| 139 | |
| 140 <p>Most of the work has been behind the scenes, namely a significant rewrite of | |
| 141 the build logic so adding each new command consists of adding a single C file to | |
| 142 the "toys" directory, eliminating the need to touch any other files. | |
| 143 There are specially formatted comments at the top of the C file to generate | |
| 144 the other files, see toys/hello.c for an example. (See generated/README.txt | |
| 145 and <a href=code.html>code.html</a> for details.)</p> | |
| 146 | |
| 226 | 147 <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. |
| 148 The new applets this time around include basename, chroot, dirname, dmesg, | |
| 149 help, mkfifo, netcat, patch, sha1sum, touch, and tty.</p> | |
| 150 | |
| 151 <p>Note that this "touch" includes -l to set the length, which can truncate | |
| 152 a file or create a commpletely sparse file, good for filesystem images.</p> | |
| 153 | |
| 154 <p>Expect the next release in about 6 months.</p> | |
| 155 | |
| 156 <p><b>December 12, 2007</b> - Updated the list of implemented applications, | |
| 157 put up a <a href=todo.txt>todo list</a> and <a href=code.html>infrastructure | |
| 158 documentation</a>. Expect another release towards the end of the month.</p> | |
| 159 | |
| 160 <p><b>June 18, 2007</b> - Put out | |
| 161 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2</a> since it's | |
| 162 been too long since I did something like that. This one implements | |
| 163 catv, count, df, echo, false, oneit, pwd, sleep, sync, toysh, true, which, | |
| 164 and yes (which is what "make defconfig" enables). There are several other | |
| 165 commands not enabled by defconfig, because they don't really work yet.</p> | |
| 166 | |
| 167 <p>Most of the general infrastructure's there now, although lots of tweaking | |
| 168 and optimizing is still needed. The test suite is skeletal and not entirely | |
| 169 checked in yet, but I'm working on that.</p> | |
| 170 | |
| 171 <p>I don't have nearly as much time to work on this as I'd like, but I'm making | |
| 172 a little progress.</p> | |
| 173 | |
| 174 <p><b>January 31, 2007</b> - | |
| 175 Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.2.tar.bz2>0.0.2 release</a>. | |
| 176 Implements count, yes, pwd, echo, bzcat, catv, oneit, and an unfinished | |
| 177 skeleton of mke2fs. Adds argument parsing logic and bunzip code to library. | |
| 178 Now configured with menuconfig. Adds "make baseline" and "make bloatcheck" | |
| 179 using Matt Mackall's bloat-o-meter, and scripts/showasm.</p> | |
| 180 | |
| 181 <p>Screwing up the web page a bit, adding an index bar along the side | |
| 182 which doesn't properly connect up to anything yet. (Busy implementing | |
| 183 mke2fs and gene2fs.)</p> | |
| 184 | |
| 185 <p><b>October 30, 2006</b> - | |
| 186 Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.1.tar.bz2>0.0.1 release</a>. Implements | |
| 187 df, a skeletal toysh, and some library functions. Proof of concept, really.</p> | |
| 188 | |
| 189 <p><b>September 7, 2006</b> - | |
| 190 Project launched, first commit to mercurial archive.</p> | |
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