[Toybox] Release fiddling, need another day or two.

scsijon scsijon at lamiaworks.com.au
Thu Oct 5 02:11:55 PDT 2017


OK, my apologies, I must have missed the android link anouncement by 
Rob. However my other premise still stands.

regards to all
scsijon

On 10/05/2017 04:54 PM, enh wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 2:25 PM, scsijon <scsijon at lamiaworks.com.au> wrote:
>>
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>> On 10/05/2017 07:14 AM, toybox-request at lists.landley.net wrote:
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>>>
>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 04:14:47 -0500
>>> From: Rob Landley <rob at landley.net>
>>> To: toybox at lists.landley.net
>>> Subject: [Toybox] Release fiddling, need another day or two.
>>> Message-ID: <758ba73a-ff30-2ed7-229c-d912571b2d70 at landley.net>
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>>> I wrote up release notes yesterday, but am reluctant to do a second
>>> release with no new commands, especially since I have pending changes in
>>> my tree for dd, ping, lsof, iconv, cut, sysconf, gzip... In any normal
>>> dev cycle I'd have gotten at least half those finished and checked in,
>>> but this year's been a bit distracting.
>>>
>>> So I'm taking a little extra time to finish off at least one, hopefully
>>> two. Stalling on the way to 1.0 is not cool and I'd like to get unblocked.
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>> Instead, think of it as a "getting most of the bugs out and having a working
>> base point" release. Well worth having from time to time Especially if later
>> problems cause things suddenly turn to quicksand, you can check if the
>> problem cause was in code before or after this point, and that shortens
>> rework cycles to get up and running again.
>>
>> Anyway, keep up the good work, I DO like toybox.
>>
>> regards
>> scsijon
>> ps I wonder if android could make use of it?
>
> pay attention at the back there!
>
> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/master/shell_and_utilities/
>
> :-)
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