From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3130 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Landley Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Best place to discuss other lightweight libraries? Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:17:05 -0500 Message-ID: <1366575425.18069.137@driftwood> References: Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366600689 30004 80.91.229.3 (22 Apr 2013 03:18:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:18:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3134-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon Apr 22 05:18:13 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UU7Gf-0005l2-3X for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 05:18:13 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 7874 invoked by uid 550); 22 Apr 2013 03:18:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 7865 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2013 03:18:11 -0000 X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:date:from:subject:to:cc:references:in-reply-to:x-mailer :message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=XC2Ut2AcdSEMVeMqT4QgsGsVLFA57VsItoZzqgllNnA=; b=AJ2gqALQu55lgvSe59VyB2F87lXC+e1LeoGCzS6YLwVlASAXjzks0M0uQKAHPVvbm0 S8YiMBuAbmI1sScRLs9t5RFBMpS5XeJTHHk6UtDuHHOAwCwakDwPeQHgIAXb0YPkMpf8 Sf29OEcDTdY9IVgpGWTD5L2/xqPC8ekvYNAihK6cykVi6c0Q+15lkcMiUZ8CE5KZQgwb Fg5JzJAnL+Uw/oSs0dpbnCQwsOAr6VbgjHc82gqARw10OVdtX+wNxA1b+WnoWL6DhdV3 MDcdN4AHBWP7GJd/g1AzGIcHFSx+Cx5ZFtUNsvnkMF7TEbITnzTuhS15VxB/3ce2cA/G VBKw== X-Received: by 10.50.117.3 with SMTP id ka3mr19534812igb.107.1366600679473; Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:17:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (from lmemsm@gmail.com on Sun Apr 21 11:30:54 2013) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.11 Content-Disposition: inline X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlnLiRRquXWP3h8aEg56Z7HuS4hp+KRO13LSLIvF+0lDisxcy4ZheBr8KrqYGgLBoTdLYvF Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3130 Archived-At: On 04/21/2013 11:30:54 AM, LM wrote: > Musl does a great job of replacing glibc. It's lightweight, > well-designed and written with friendly licensing. However, I'm > noticing there are a lot of other standard libraries and tools on a > typical system and often many of them are bloated or not so well > designed. I've been looking for a good forum to discuss using > alternative libraries and tools. I've checked out projects like > Beyond Linux from Scratch and suckless.org/Plan 9 and several other > options. I've even checked out some embedded systems mailing > lists/forums. Have yet to find a good forum to discuss topics like > these with interested developers. Does anyone know of a mailing list, > forum, etc. where one could discuss such topics. If so, please let me > know. If not, and if anyone on the list is interested in discussing > this sort of thing further, please e-mail me. At the moment, I'm > investigating finding a less bloated alternative to libintl. Did > notice gettext-tiny as part of Sabotage. I've also run across 3 other > options and am looking at pros and cons of the implementations. If you find one, I'm interested in hearing about it. In theory the linux-embedded list might be a good place: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-embedded In practice, not much goes on there and the last post to that list was =20 January. But if people did start posting there, I could join in. :) Rob=