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authorRob Landley2005-10-31 23:52:02 +0000
committerRob Landley2005-10-31 23:52:02 +0000
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We've got fuser, fix some typos, and move Vodz's comment about UTF8 into
a new "internationalization" section, with some related concerns.
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@@ -11,19 +11,14 @@ sh
work all that well (especially not in a chroot environment), due to apps not
being reentrant. Unifying the various shells and figuring out a configurable
way of adding the minimal set of bash features a given script uses is a big
- job, but it be a big improvement.
+ job, but it would be a big improvement.
Note: Rob Landley (rob@landley.net) is working on this one, but very slowly...
-
- Support unicode for cmdedit.
---
diff
We should have a diff -u command. We have patch, we should have diff
(we only need to support unified diffs though).
---
-fuser
- Would be nice. The basic susv3 options, plus fuser -k.
----
patch
Should have simple fuzz factor support to apply patches at an offset which
shouldn't take up too much space.
@@ -51,7 +46,30 @@ Do a SUSv3 audit
Even better would be some kind of automated compliance test harness that
exercises each command line option and the various corner cases.
---
+---
+Internationalization
+ How much internationalization should we do?
+
+ The low hanging fruit is UTF-8 character set support. We should do this.
+ (Vodz pointed out the shell's cmdedit as needing work here. What else?)
+
+ We also have lots of hardwired english text messages. Consolidating this
+ into some kind of message table not only makes translation easier, but
+ also allows us to consolidate redundant (or close) strings.
+
+ We probably don't want to be bloated with locale support. (Not unless we can
+ cleanly export it from our underlying C library without having to concern
+ ourselves with it directly. Perhaps a few specific things like a config
+ option for "date" are low hanging fruit here?)
+
+ What level should things happen at? How much do we care about
+ internationalizing the text console when X11 and xterms are so much better
+ at it? (There's some infrastructure here we don't implement: The
+ "unicode_start" and "unicode_stop" shell scripts need "vt-is-UTF8" and a
+ --unicode option to loadkeys. That implies a real loadkeys/dumpkeys
+ implementation to replace loadkmap/dumpkmap. Plus messing with console font
+ loading. Is it worth it, or do we just say "use X"?)
+---
Unify archivers
Lots of archivers have the same general infrastructure. The directory
traversal code should be factored out, and the guts of each archiver could