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| author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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| date | Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:33:06 -0500 |
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| 169 implementation of Android systems everywhere.</p> | 169 implementation of Android systems everywhere.</p> |
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| 171 <p>More to come...</p> | 171 <p>More to come...</p> |
| 172 | 172 |
| 173 <hr> | 173 <hr> |
| 174 <p><b>December 1, 2009</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.1.0.tar.bz2>toybox-0.1.0</a> is out.</p> | |
| 175 | 174 |
| 176 <p>This release is a couple build fixes and another bugfix to patch.</p> | 175 <p><a href=oldnews.html>Old news</a> from before the relaunch.</p> |
| 177 | |
| 178 <hr> | |
| 179 <p><b>April 17, 2009</b> - Another bugfix release, | |
| 180 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.9.2.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.9.2</a>, off by one allocation error in patch.</p> | |
| 181 | |
| 182 <p>(Darn fiddly command, innit?)</p> | |
| 183 | |
| 184 <hr> | |
| 185 <p><b>March 29, 2009</b> - Released | |
| 186 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.9.1.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.9.1</a> which is a bugfix | |
| 187 release for issues with the patch command.</p> | |
| 188 | |
| 189 <p>The project is currently on hold while the developers learn Lua and | |
| 190 decide whether or not to port the whole thing to that language. | |
| 191 (Also note: the mailing list moved. See the links on the left. You'll | |
| 192 have to resubscribe.)</p> | |
| 193 | |
| 194 <hr> | |
| 195 <p><b>January 29, 2009</b> - Released | |
| 196 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.9.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.9.tar.bz2</a> which is a minor packaging | |
| 197 fix for 0.0.8. (The previous release tarball contained a prebuilt x86-64 | |
| 198 kconfig/conf file, because the release script ran defconfig to | |
| 199 pregenerate help.h, and didn't run make clean afterwards.) The actual source | |
| 200 code is identical to the previous release.</p> | |
| 201 | |
| 202 <hr> | |
| 203 <p><b>January 20, 2009</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.8.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.8</a> | |
| 204 adds the uname, cksum, and mkswapfs commands.</p> | |
| 205 | |
| 206 <p>This uname implementation is cross compile friendly: when built as a 32 bit | |
| 207 binary on an x86_64 host, it reports "i686" to confuse autoconf less.</p> | |
| 208 | |
| 209 <p>This cksum has several extra command line options which can be used to | |
| 210 produce different cksum variants based on the same crc32 algorithm. For | |
| 211 example, the broadcom "trx" image packaging uses a little endian crc, | |
| 212 pre-inverted instead of post-inverted, and does not include the length. | |
| 213 (Without these arguments, it produces the normal SUSv4 cksum output.)</p> | |
| 214 | |
| 215 <p>It also upgrades netcat with a server mode (-l option) and fixes several | |
| 216 netcat bugs. It also fixed multiple bugs in "patch", works around a | |
| 217 reiserfs bug in cp, and oneit can reboot on exit more reliably.</p> | |
| 218 | |
| 219 <p><b>November 12, 2008</b> - | |
| 220 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.7.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.7</a> | |
| 221 adds sort and tee commands, upgrades the internal option parsing logic and the | |
| 222 test suite, and numerous bugfixes (bunzip, chroot, cat, patch).</p> | |
| 223 | |
| 224 <p><b>May 26, 2008</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.6.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.6</a> | |
| 225 adds cat, rmdir, and seq. Bugfixes to cp and a new -v option. Updates mdev to | |
| 226 work with the 2.6.25 kernel. Updates patch to knows that a file dated | |
| 227 1969-12-31 means it doesn't exist, and to fail if a file it needs to create | |
| 228 already exists. Command line option parsing can now handle things like "echo | |
| 229 -nex" vs "echo -ne". Several updates to the test suite (run scripts/test.sh), | |
| 230 and some build fixes.</p> | |
| 231 | |
| 232 <p> | |
| 233 <hr> | |
| 234 <p><b>March 29, 2008</b> - | |
| 235 Time to release <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.5.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.5</a>, with | |
| 236 new commands cp and chvt and several bugfixes.</p> | |
| 237 | |
| 238 <p>More makefile targets: "make test" runs the test suite (which needs more test | |
| 239 scripts), and make install/install_flat/uninstall/uninstall_flat calls | |
| 240 make/install.sh (with options --long --symlink --force --uninstall depending | |
| 241 on the context).</p> | |
| 242 | |
| 243 <p>Most of the work has been behind the scenes, namely a significant rewrite of | |
| 244 the build logic so adding each new command consists of adding a single C file to | |
| 245 the "toys" directory, eliminating the need to touch any other files. | |
| 246 There are specially formatted comments at the top of the C file to generate | |
| 247 the other files, see toys/hello.c for an example. (See generated/README.txt | |
| 248 and <a href=code.html>code.html</a> for details.)</p> | |
| 249 | |
| 250 <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. | |
| 251 The new applets this time around include basename, chroot, dirname, dmesg, | |
| 252 help, mkfifo, netcat, patch, sha1sum, touch, and tty.</p> | |
| 253 | |
| 254 <p>Note that this "touch" includes -l to set the length, which can truncate | |
| 255 a file or create a commpletely sparse file, good for filesystem images.</p> | |
| 256 | |
| 257 <p>Expect the next release in about 6 months.</p> | |
| 258 | |
| 259 <p><b>December 12, 2007</b> - Updated the list of implemented applications, | |
| 260 put up a <a href=todo.txt>todo list</a> and <a href=code.html>infrastructure | |
| 261 documentation</a>. Expect another release towards the end of the month.</p> | |
| 262 | |
| 263 <p><b>June 18, 2007</b> - Put out | |
| 264 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2</a> since it's | |
| 265 been too long since I did something like that. This one implements | |
| 266 catv, count, df, echo, false, oneit, pwd, sleep, sync, toysh, true, which, | |
| 267 and yes (which is what "make defconfig" enables). There are several other | |
| 268 commands not enabled by defconfig, because they don't really work yet.</p> | |
| 269 | |
| 270 <p>Most of the general infrastructure's there now, although lots of tweaking | |
| 271 and optimizing is still needed. The test suite is skeletal and not entirely | |
| 272 checked in yet, but I'm working on that.</p> | |
| 273 | |
| 274 <p>I don't have nearly as much time to work on this as I'd like, but I'm making | |
| 275 a little progress.</p> | |
| 276 | |
| 277 <p><b>January 31, 2007</b> - | |
| 278 Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.2.tar.bz2>0.0.2 release</a>. | |
| 279 Implements count, yes, pwd, echo, bzcat, catv, oneit, and an unfinished | |
| 280 skeleton of mke2fs. Adds argument parsing logic and bunzip code to library. | |
| 281 Now configured with menuconfig. Adds "make baseline" and "make bloatcheck" | |
| 282 using Matt Mackall's bloat-o-meter, and scripts/showasm.</p> | |
| 283 | |
| 284 <p>Screwing up the web page a bit, adding an index bar along the side | |
| 285 which doesn't properly connect up to anything yet. (Busy implementing | |
| 286 mke2fs and gene2fs.)</p> | |
| 287 | |
| 288 <p><b>October 30, 2006</b> - | |
| 289 Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.1.tar.bz2>0.0.1 release</a>. Implements | |
| 290 df, a skeletal toysh, and some library functions. Proof of concept, really.</p> | |
| 291 | |
| 292 <p><b>September 7, 2006</b> - | |
| 293 Project launched, first commit to mercurial archive.</p> | |
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