Changed bb_regcomp to xregcomp and #if 0'ed out destroy_cmd_strs in sed.c

[oweals/busybox.git] / TODO

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@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@ around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know.
     needed or wanted in busybox (or else I'd have to link to libcrypt).
 
 * Networking apps are probably going to be split out some time soon into a
-    separate package (named perhaps tiny-netkit?).  This currently includes 
-    hostid, hostname, mnc, and ping.
-
+    separate package (named perhaps netkit-tiny?).  This would remove the
+    following items from BusyBox: hostid, hostname, nc, nslookup, telnet, 
+    and ping.  nfs mounting and syslogd (when it supports network logging)
+    will remain in BusyBox.
 
  -Erik
 
@@ -21,23 +22,20 @@ around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know.
 * rdate
 * hwclock
 * stty
-* cut
 * expr
 * wget (or whatever I call it)
 * tftp
 * ftp
-
-
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-
-Add a compile option to turn off all the compiled in help
-and usage information.  Some folks don't need or want it...
+* group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
+* consider making a unified option parser (if it can be done 
+    modular, small, etc.) 
 
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 Running the following:
 
-    make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq
+    rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \
+       sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq
 
 reveals the list of all external (i.e. libc) things that BusyBox depends on.
 It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, and
@@ -46,37 +44,18 @@ for GNU libc to be so big.  I'm sure it can be a lot better.
 
 (BTW, this is more informative if BB_FEATURE_NFSMOUNT is turned off...)
 
+Most wanted list:
 
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-
-Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox'
-and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller...
-
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-
-busybox.defs.h is too big and hard to follow.
-
-Perhaps I need to add a better build system (like the Linux kernel?)
-
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-
-Feature request:
+    [andersen@slag busybox]$ grep -l getgroups *.[ch]
+    test.c
 
-/bin/busybox --install -s    which makes all links to commands that it
-  can support (an optionnal -s should be used for symbolic links instead
-  of hard links).
+Policy violation.  getgroups uses libc nss, which is unlikely
+to be present in an embedded system.
 
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-
-> Have you ever thought of doig network logging in busybox syslogd ? It
-> would quite make sense on embedded systems... :)
-
-So far I had not considered it.  Basically, you wish to have
-messages from the embedded box logged to a remote network
-syslog box, right?  I can see that this would be useful.
-I'll add this to the TODO list,
-
+Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox'
+and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller...
 
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@@ -90,6 +69,10 @@ I'll add this to the TODO list,
 
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+An interesting email listing some apps that use /proc.  BusyBox
+tries to avoid /proc as mush as is possible, so this stuff is
+interesting (to me at least):
+
 
 Date:  Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:23:12 +0000 (GMT)
 From: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX>