On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:08:28AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > Mike Frysinger originally prompted this by asking > for dos2unix/unix2dos to be included > (though iconv/recode do this in a more general way). > > I asked around a few mailing lists for > what people would consider appropriate for adding to "miscutils" > and got very little interest about it, to be honest. > Also I'm always trying to minimise the interfaces people > need to know about, and so I'm wary of starting a new project. > > In my opinion possible candidates for inclusion are: > > dos2unix (not sure about this) > http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/timeout > http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/truncate > http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/newest > http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/fix > http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/sw > http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/add > http://git.eu.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=tree;f=text-utils; > http://git.eu.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=tree;f=misc-utils; > > Karl, what do you think about moving the utils not specific to linux > from util-linux to "miscutils". No problem move it to an actively maintained project, although I'm in doubt that any non-linux system will use it -- the utils from util-linux/{misc-utils,text-utils} are nothing unique. It's based on old Berkeley Unix stuff. If you don't want to duplicate effort (scm, mailing list, build-system ...), you can also maintain the utils in util-linux-ng :-) It's very easy with distributed SCM. My $0.02... Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
