[BusyBox] Getting started on 1.0.1-rc2

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 11 August 2005 10:08, Paul Fox wrote:
> rob -- i looked at the ones i know anything about, and agree with
> your sorting overall.  just a few comments...
>
> ....
>
>  > More info (need to look at patch, scratch head a bit):
>  > 10917 something to do with stat.c?
>  > 10923 big makefile change.  Nervous.
>  > 10974: is this a bugfix, or a follow-up to 10887?
>
> mike told me it's a followup, for warning suppression.  so leave
> for 1.1.

Got it.

>  > 10975: what?
>  > 10977: how much ipv6 support is in 1.0?  This needed?
>  > 11002 ether-wake and uclibc?
>  > 11007 init is still horked...
>
> this is really a new feature, not a bugfix.  i'd leave it for 1.1.

ok.

>  > 11010 remove uclibc #ifdef from inetd.
>
> also a new feature -- exposes the leave-in-foreground
> option for non-uclibc builds.  leave for 1.1.

If the option was exposed for uclibc builds, then it's not a new feature and I 
consider it 1.0 material.  YMMV.

>  > 11011 whitespace changes to makefile?
>  > 11012 bbconfigopts.h dependency?
>
> this is a followon fixup to 11006.  leave for 1.1.

Got it.

>  > 11043: modprobe not needing /bin/sh
>  >
>  > Probably not:
>  >
>  > 10863,10901,10933,10976,11099 The mount rewrite is 1.1 material.
>  > 10878 implement "ip route flush cache" - new feature.
>  > 10879 bugfix for new sort: 1.0 doesn't have new sort.
>  > 10883 nc -e
>  > 10886 scriptable telnet (new feature, why not nc???)
>
> the bug title and log message were misleading.  it's really a
> bugfix, to make bb telnet act the same as other telnets when
> stdin isn't a terminal.  it happens to be useful for simple
> scripts.  as you say, nc may be better, but telnet has been
> useful for this for longer than nc has existed.

And people know about telnet.  Ok, as a telnet bugfix it's 1.0...

>  > 10887 The zip rewrite is a new feature.
>
> unfortunately, i agree.  unfortunately, because bb unzip isn't complete
> enough to be very useful in its 1.00 form.

We should ship 1.1 before the end of the year.  If that means the todo list 
gets punted to 1.2, I can live with that.

That said, 1.0.1 needs to go out RSN.

>  > 10922 #ifdef newlib is not an improvement.
>  > 10929, 10944, 11023 ENABLED_STUFF is 1.1 material.
>  > 10973, 10984 mke2fs
>  > 10978, 10980: NO!  Evil evil evil evil...
>  > 10992: docs directory not relevant in 1.0
>  > 10995: I don't care about devfs.
>  > 11006, 11008, 11015 new applets.
>  > 11009 ls new option (--color).
>  > 11044, 11083: ash new features (vi editing mode, builtin echo)
>
> paul
> =---------------------
>  paul fox, pgf at brightstareng.com

Rob