15 Mar
2017
15 Mar
'17
7:20 p.m.
Hi,
Rob Landley wrote,
On 01/09/2017 08:26 AM, ANDY KENNEDY wrote:
Yeah, but your opinion is just _one_ opinion.
Keeping a working code base up and running for a lot of
architectures not supported by musl isn't about beating a dead
horse.(ARC, Xtensa, NDS32, Sparc, Blackfin, C6X, H8/300, ..)
uClibc-ng is alive and kicking. So stop telling people bullshit.
Because uClibc is dead.
As the guy who staged the coup to appoint the current maintainer a
decade ago and then watched him _not_ get the NPTL mess sorted or the
project back on a regular release schedule, I agree: uClibc is dead. Has
been for a while, replaced by musl-libc (chromeos) and bionic (android).
I wrote a long eulogy for the project last year on the buildroot list
explaining how it died and why I consider the uClibc-ng project to be
beating a dead horse:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2016-December/180102.html
Of course that particular exercise in necromancy is no sillier than a
half-dozen other such projects I could name.
Surely reimplementing a well known project like busybox just because
to use another open source license is something totally useful and
genius stuff.
I added aarchh64 support recently to uClibc-ng, so you might give it
a try and make your own opinion.
best regards
Waldemar