[Toybox] Shell Compatibility Reports from Oils - ~800 tests passing
Andy Chu
andychup at gmail.com
Sat Jun 28 21:18:46 PDT 2025
Hm I looked at the goals of toybox again:
> Toybox's main goal is to make Android self-hosting by improving Android's command line utilities so it can build an installable Android Open Source Project image entirely from source under a stock Android system.
> Toybox aims to provide one quarter of a theoretical "minimal native development environment"
> In theory, this should only require four packages
I don't know much about Android -- is this at all realistic for FIVE
packages -- if you add mksh, which I believe is the Android system
shell ?
Can Android even be built on Android at all, with any number of
packages? e.g. if you download all the dev tools onto an Android
device ... I imagine it is a ton of tools, and not very fun.
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Anyway, if there is something realistic we could do here with OSH,
that may be of interest to our funders http://nlnet.nl
e.g. testing that important packages can actually be built, and
reducing real failures to reproducible test cases. That is a lot of
real work
>From some viewpoints it could be theoretical, but proving that you can
build a real system is important!
Andy
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