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2 <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. New applets include patch, touch, and sha1sum.</p> | |
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4 <p><b>December 12, 2007</b> - Updated the list of implemented applications, | |
5 put up a <a href=todo.txt>todo list</a> and <a href=code.html>infrastructure | |
6 documentation</a>. Expect another release towards the end of the month.</p> | |
7 | |
8 <p><b>June 18, 2007</b> - Put out | |
9 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2</a> since it's | |
10 been too long since I did something like that. This one implements | |
11 catv, count, df, echo, false, oneit, pwd, sleep, sync, toysh, true, which, | |
12 and yes (which is what "make defconfig" enables). There are several other | |
13 commands not enabled by defconfig, because they don't really work yet.</p> | |
14 | |
15 <p>Most of the general infrastructure's there now, although lots of tweaking | |
16 and optimizing is still needed. The test suite is skeletal and not entirely | |
17 checked in yet, but I'm working on that.</p> | |
18 | |
19 <p>I don't have nearly as much time to work on this as I'd like, but I'm making | |
20 a little progress.</p> | |
21 | |
22 <p><b>January 31, 2007</b> - | |
23 Screwing up the web page a bit, adding an index bar along the side | |
24 which doesn't properly connect up to anything yet. (Busy implementing | |
25 mke2fs and gene2fs.)</p> | |
26 | |
27 <p>Warning: lots of this page is about what I plan to do, not what I've | |
28 already done. See <a href="#status>status</a> or <a href="/notes.html>my | |
29 development blog</a>, or <a href="/hg/toybox">browse the mercurial | |
30 archive</a>.</p> | |
31 | |
32 <h2><a name="what" />What is ToyBox?</h2> | |
33 | |
34 <p>The goal of the Toybox project is to create simple implementations of all | |
35 the important Linux command line utilities. These implementations should | |
36 be small (the entire project should total less than a megabyte, uncompressed), | |
37 fast, simple, and correctly implemented (which is related to standards | |
38 compliance, but isn't quite the same thing). Click for | |
39 <a href="design.html">more about the design goals</a></p> | |
40 | |
41 <p>Toybox has configurable levels of functionality, and should scale from tiny | |
42 embedded systems up to full general purpose desktop and development | |
43 environments. The author plans to run it on his laptop, and the | |
44 <a href=/code/firmware>Firmware Linux</a> project is trying to get a complete | |
45 Linux system to rebuild itself from source code using toybox.</p> | |
46 | |
47 <p>Toybox is <a href=license.html>Licensed under GPL version 2</a>.</p> | |
48 | |
49 <p>Toybox can be built as a single "swiss army knife" executable (ala BusyBox | |
50 or Red Hat's Nash), or each command can be built as a traditional independent | |
51 executable.</p> | |
52 | |
53 <h2><a name="commands" />Which commands are planned?</h2> | |
54 | |
55 <b><h3>Relevant Standards</h3></b> | |
56 | |
57 <p>Most commands are implemented according to | |
58 <a href=http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/idx/utilities.html>The | |
59 Single Unix Specification version 3</a>. This does not mean that Toybox is | |
60 implementing every SUSv3 utility: some such as SCCS and ed are obsolete, while | |
61 others such as c99 are outside the scope of the project. Toybox also isn't | |
62 implementing full internationalization support: it should be 8-bit clean and | |
63 handle UTF-8, but otherwise we leave this to X11 and higher layers. And | |
64 some things (like $CDPATH support in "cd") await a good explanation of why | |
65 to bother with them.</p> | |
66 | |
67 <p>The other major sources of commands are the Linux man pages, and testing | |
68 the behavior of existing commands (although not generally looking at their | |
69 source code).</p> | |
70 | |
71 <b><h2><a name="status" />What commands are implemented?</h2></b> | |
72 | |
73 <p>The following commands are currently implemented: basename, catv, chroot, | |
74 count, df, dirname, dmesg, echo, false, hello, mkfifo, oneit, pwd, sha1sum, | |
75 sleep, sync, true, tty, which, yes.</p> | |
76 | |
77 <p>The following commands are partly implemented, in a somewhat usable but not | |
78 necessarily complete state: bzcat/bunzip2, help, mke2fs, netcat/nc, sh/toysh, | |
79 mdev, touch, readlink.</p> | |
80 | |
81 <p>The following are partially implemented commands that don't actually do | |
82 anything yet: mke2fs, md5sum.</p> | |
83 | |
84 <p>For more information, see <a href=todo.txt>the todo list</a>.</p> | |
85 | |
86 <b><h3>Command Shell</h3></b> | |
87 <p>The Toybox Shell (toysh) aims to be a reasonable bash replacement. It | |
88 implements the "sh" and "toysh" commands, plus the built-in commands "cd" and | |
89 "exit". This is the largest single sub-project in toybox.</p> | |
90 | |
91 <p>The following additional commands may be built into the shell (but not as | |
92 separate executables): cd, exit, if, while, for, function, fg, bg, jobs, source, | |
93 <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/alias.html">alias</a>, | |
94 export, set, unset, read, trap, and exec. (Note: not done yet.)</p> | |
95 | |
96 </ul> | |
97 | |
98 <b><h2><a name="downloads" />Download</h2></b> | |
99 | |
100 <p>This project is maintained as a mercurial archive. To get a copy of the | |
101 current development version, either use mercurial (hg clone | |
102 http://landley.net/toybox) or click on one of the zip/gz/bz2 links | |
103 at the top of the <a href=/hg/toybox>mercurial archive browser</a> page to get | |
104 an archive of the appropriate version. Click | |
105 <a href="/hg/toybox?cmd=tags">tags</a> to the tagged release versions ("tip" | |
106 is the current development version).</p> | |
107 | |
108 | |
109 <p>My <a href=/notes.html>development log</a> is currently the best way to | |
110 track what's going on with this project. There's also a | |
111 <a href=http://www2.them.com:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/toybox>mailing list</a> for toybox development.</p> | |
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