[dev] Current status of sbase?

From: Rox 64 <mrox128_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 20:58:13 +0100

Hi guys, been interested on Plan 9, suckless.org tools and the philosophy
behind both projects.
I want to read LFS and learn how to make my own distro with simple,
do-one-thing-and-do-it-right software and without GNU and other shit. I'm
going to use many ideas behind sta.li (such as its filesystem) and Plan
9/9front, and other Linux distros such as Sabotage, Bedrock and Bootstrap.
I'm also thinking about implementing both 9base and sbase. I don't expect
it to be made in a few months, through, it's just an idea I have in mind.

I have checked your git page and sbase has no contributions since seven
months ago. How usable is sbase? I have builded the current git version
against gcc (not sure why tcc fails when statically building =( ...) and
the musl library and the total size is 448Kb, with 2376+ 336 lines. That's
pretty awesome. On the other side, Ubuntu's coreutils 8.13-3.2ubuntu2.1
package has 70709 lines (without counting the files under the lib folder),
and that's a no-no.

So is sbase mature enough to replace coreutils and similar packages? Of
course there's busybox and toybox too, but I'm not fan of having one single
binary to do gazillion things.
Received on Mon Jan 07 2013 - 20:58:13 CET