On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 12:02:02PM -0500, Greg Reagle wrote:
> I neglected to mention the Heirloom Toolchest at
> http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/tools.html as another alternative.
http://git.2f30.org/hbase/
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014, at 11:56 AM, Greg Reagle wrote:
> > I infer from the existence of sbase and ubase that the other
> > alternatives that already exist (e.g. busybox, toybox, GNU) are
> > considered too full of suck. Is that right?
> >
> > I would guess that the GNU utilities are considerd too bloated. What
> > are the perceived shortcomings of busybox and toybox? What about Plan 9
> > from User Space?
Busybox has an ugly build system and the code is full of hacks.
Toybox is much much nicer but it still has the ugly configuration
system.
p9p is not applicable for a UNIX userspace.
Received on Fri Nov 07 2014 - 18:22:28 CET