On base64 within Busybox

Mats Erik Andersson mats.andersson64 at comhem.se
Wed Apr 18 06:04:29 PDT 2007


Hello there,

I took a look at the present situation as regards
to base64 and uu[en|de]code in Busybox. The root
document TODO clearly needs updating in this respect.

Rob Landley has already collected all EN-coding into
base64 as
	libb/uuencode.c,
 thus providing
	networking/wget.c
 and
	coreutils/uuencode.c
with a common code base. There remains two snippets
for DE-coding in
	coreutils/uudecode.c
and
	networking/httpd.c
The latter is clearly short with little overhead, and works
on a string, whereas the former shuffles tokens from one 
file to another. I personally see little gain in melting the
two into some common pot. Therefore it seems reasonable to
remove the part of the TODO file that concerns base64, since
Rob Landley already has implemented his program in this
particular area.

Best regards,   Mats E Andersson


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