Re: suming utility

[Karel Zak]

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

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