[Toybox] Getting Toybox into Android before the NetBSD userland wins out

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed Sep 17 06:57:08 PDT 2014


On 09/16/14 17:11, Jason Spiro wrote:
> I humbly suggest that perhaps the best thing to do would be to visit the 
> Android mailing list today, and 
> to float the idea of getting _some_ parts of Toybox into Android.  Perhaps 
> start by suggesting that 
> Toybox could provide some useful things that Android doesn't yet include:  
> for example, dos2unix, 
> unix2dos, nice, renice, sort, uniq, usleep, tac, tee, yes, and acpi.

Where is the android mailing list? I've been under the impression that
android development was internal to Google? I may have gotten this
impression when the AOSP project lead quit last year:

http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/07/aosp-maintenance-head-leaves-role-in-wake-of-open-source-issues/

If anybody wants to do this, I'm all for it...

Rob

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