Karel Zak wrote: > 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. Well `truncate` is already in FreeBSD at least, so that seems sensible. Also it makes sense to minimise the number of separate projects where possible, so I agree that maintaining these within util-linux-ng would be good. They can alway be split it in the future if required. Currently my scripts depend on coreutils which would not be appropriate for util-linux-ng components, so they would be rewritten in C (which would be good for other reasons). I'll probably send timeout.c and truncate.c first, to see how it goes. thanks, Pádraig. - 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
