From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1298 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Isaac Dunham Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Draft: musl promo materials Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:06:41 -0700 Message-ID: <20120714160641.25a2e7be@newbook> References: <20120713181254.GA31206@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <5001E884.3020604@comcast.net> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1342307219 20537 80.91.229.3 (14 Jul 2012 23:06:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 23:06:59 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1299-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Jul 15 01:06:59 2012 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 1SqBQP-0006Rp-Su for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2012 01:06:57 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 17505 invoked by uid 550); 14 Jul 2012 23:06:57 -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 17494 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2012 23:06:57 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=lavabit; d=lavabit.com; b=krozE/MmTn04/hTWMdd97J011csQTfndmFJOAx7Pk8SadIekqwPnvMgClim8e4UjipNScZmtz5mEGT/c8gk7JcM5C9X5pZfA3cpcPQTJIxJofvfhKHF12lCOYonBnBMzJHc2iO4CVQfI4KqbodqrHb6qFXyE25cL8pXePhWKfVk=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; In-Reply-To: <5001E884.3020604@comcast.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1298 Archived-At: On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:45:40 -0700 Charlie Kester wrote: > It would be good to include a list of apps that have been > successfully compiled with musl. No need to list every such app, > just some representative ones that will help dispel any fears about > the library's ability to replace glibc in the most common uses. Somehow, listing compatible applications in PR does not sound very encouraging, until you can run the really huge suites/applications (I'm thinking of glibc-linked NVIDIA + Xorg, as was recently done with a patched version of musl, Google Earth, or native-built OpenOffice, Firefox/Chromium, the GIMP, Wine, Java, Mesa, GNOME, KDE, maybe Xfce, R, GRASS, BRL-CAD, FreeCAD, TeX, GDAL...the list isn't exclusive or a recommendation of the software, but it should give an idea of the scale I'm talking about). If you say "can run GCC 4.7, PHP, Xfbdev, Xfce 4.10, SDL, Tomoyo and grsec" (Xfce is in Snowflake, the rest are the big names from sabotage), that sure seems to reinforce the impression you're concerned about by virtue of omission. I'd prefer to see a link to "further information and compatability" or some such thing. Isaac Dunham