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

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed Sep 17 18:35:43 PDT 2014


On 09/16/14 18:41, David Seikel wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:30:06 -0400 dmccunney
> <dennis.mccunney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:23 PM, David Seikel <onefang at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:11:41 +0000 (UTC) Jason Spiro
>>> <jasonspiro4+gmane at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Once Toybox gets into Android, it might then be possible to
>>>> convince the Android maintainers to provide
>>>> symlinks from /system/bin to _all_ of the reasonably-finished parts
>>>> of Toybox.
>>>>
>>>> What do you think of my idea?
>>>
>>> This reminds me that I should pull my finger out and put my toybox
>>> installer on Play.
>>
>> Please.  I have a rooted Android Jellybean tablet with a full Busybox
>> install, but I'd *love* to have Toybox instead.
> 
> $DAYJOB got in the way, but I'll see if I can get the basics working
> well enough for a release this weekend.

I also definitely intend to get a release out this weekend. :)

(And I'm submitting the new release to buildroot as a package. Probably
ping lwn.net about this one too...)

Rob

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