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

David Seikel onefang at gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 20:57:46 PDT 2014


On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:35:43 -0500 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> 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. :)

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley

(Or in more modern English - The best laid plans of mice and men,
often go awry.)

I'm sure we both at least got CLOSER to a release in the last couple of
weekends.  B-)

-- 
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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