On 23 May 2011 10:16, Mate Nagy <mn...@port70.net> wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:15:43AM +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote: >> I think it's about time we started a minimalist, statically linked set >> of core utilities. The BSD family are bloated, and the GNU monstrous. >> Some of us seem to be resorting to using those from Plan 9, which were >> designed for another operating system and exist on Unix through a >> compatibility shim. > please, please don't take this as a troll - it's just a personal > feeling... but I do feel that the suckless project is at its best when > it produces fantastically useful minimalistic software like dwm. > > These days it seems a moronic, unproductive crusade on features and > rewriting completely serviceable utilities to be much worse is more popular.
I agree. Nevertheless, the effort already undertaken should at least be preserved in a sbase repository which I asked Connor to set up. For 9base the main purpose is mk and rc (and the assumptions of mk to rely on a rc shell) -- it will be hard to pointless to rewrite those for the sake of 9base. Cheers, Anselm > Best regards, > Mate > >
