Re: suming utility

[Pádraig Brady]

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.