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Web site updates, and a design document.
| author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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| date | Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:19:37 -0500 |
| parents | a5e1ebc1d6ee |
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--- a/www/index.html Sun Nov 05 01:01:34 2006 -0500 +++ b/www/index.html Thu Nov 09 19:19:37 2006 -0500 @@ -1,20 +1,32 @@ <html><title>toybox</title> <body> -<h2>What is ToyBox?</h2> +<p>Warning: lots of this page is about what I plan to do, not what I've +already done. See <a href="#status>status</a> or <a href="/notes.html>my +development blog</a>.</p> + +<h2><a name="what" />What is ToyBox?</h2> -<p>Toybox aims to implement all the Linux command line utilities in under one -megabyte. This project aims for small, simple, and efficient implementations, -with configurable levels of functionality. It should scale from tiny embedded -systems up to full fledged desktop and development environments.</p> +<p>The Toybox project is creating simple implementations of all the Linux +command line utilities. Other goals are small size (the produced binaries +should total less than a megabyte, uncompressed), speed of execution, and +correctness of implementation (which is related to standards compliance, but +isn't quite the same thing). +Click for <a href="design.html">more about the design goals</a></p> -<p>The project is <a href=license.html>Licensed under GPL version 2</a>.</p> +<p>Toybox has configurable levels of functionality, and should scale from tiny +embedded systems up to full general purpose desktop and development +environments. The author plans to run it on his laptop, and the +<a href=/code/firmware>Firmware Linux</a> project is trying to get a complete +Linux system to rebuild itself from source code using toybox.</p> + +<p>Toybox is <a href=license.html>Licensed under GPL version 2</a>.</p> <p>Toybox can be built as a single "swiss army knife" executable (ala BusyBox or Red Hat's Nash), or each command can be built as a traditional independent executable.</p> -<h2>Which commands are planned?</h2> +<h2><a name="commands" />Which commands are planned?</h2> <b><h3>Relevant Standards</h3></b> @@ -46,7 +58,7 @@ <p>Commands: ar, make [TODO]</p> -<b><h2>What commands are implemented?</h2></b> +<b><h2><a name="status />What commands are implemented?</h2></b> <p>Toybox is a work in progress, and nowhere near a 1.0 release. The first commit was September 27, 2006, and work is ongoing.</p> @@ -57,7 +69,13 @@ <p>Infrastructure:</p> -<b><h2>Download</h2></b> +<ul> +<li>main: toy_list[], toy_find(), toy_exec(), main/toybox_main().</li> +<ul>lib: llist, getmountlist(), error_msg/error_exit, xmalloc(), +strlcpy(), xexec(), xopen()/xread(), xgetcwd(), xabspath(), find_in_path(), +itoa().</li> + +<b><h2><a name="download" />Download</h2></b> <p>This project is maintained as a mercurial archive. To get a copy of the current development version, "hg clone static-http://landley.net/code/toybox",