[haiku-development] Re: Outsourcing more command line apps to optionalpacakges
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:48:13 +0200
On 2010-10-12 at 22:47:41 [+0200], scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As part of fixing ticket 1894 (http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1894) I
> was thinking this might be the time to move some of the commandline
> apps out to optionalpackages like we did with sed awhile back.
> Some of the packages that could be outsourced are:
>
> coreutils
> sharutils
> diffutils
> findutils
> gawk
> grep
>
> Any others?
bash, bc,... pretty much everything in src/bin save gdb (uses private APIs)
and zip/unzip (needed by the build system -- cross-check with
src/tools/Jamfile).
> Any concerns about removing any or all of these?
Nope.
> Should we move them soon or wait awhile still?
If the process for new release is going to start soon, it might be prudent
to wait until after the release.
CU, Ingo
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