From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3146 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Best place to discuss other lightweight libraries? Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:31:10 -0400 Message-ID: <20130422233110.GU20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <1366673046.18069.148@driftwood> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366673479 12255 80.91.229.3 (22 Apr 2013 23:31:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:31:19 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3150-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Apr 23 01:31:24 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 1UUQCh-0002KM-CM for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:31:23 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 31894 invoked by uid 550); 22 Apr 2013 23:31:22 -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 31886 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2013 23:31:22 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1366673046.18069.148@driftwood> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3146 Archived-At: On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 06:24:06PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On 04/22/2013 11:40:37 AM, LM wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Luca Barbato > > wrote: > > > >> > - Dependency on any library with the above problems. :-) > >> > >> And that kills everybody using glib? *runs and hides* > >> > > > >I guess that's one of the reasons I'm trying to eliminate glib from my > >system and thus, at the moment, trying to find a gettext > >alternative that > >doesn't need it. > > > >Was reading about the Citrus Project ( http://citrus.bsdclub.org/ ) > >creating a BSD licensed gettext. Having trouble digging up latest > >source > >code for it though. I also ran across Apache's version of iconv ( > >http://apr.apache.org/download.cgi ) but didn't see anything for > >gettext > >mentioned at the site. > > I use http://penma.de/code/gettext-stub/ which doesn't fix the > problem, but does avoid it for my use cases. An actual desktop > should be internationalizable, though. Agreed. > >As time allows, I'm reworking sdcv which uses glib so that it > >doesn't need > >it. Then, all I need to do is find some useable replacements for > >SciTE and > >Sylpheed and I think I will have eliminated any major needs for > >glib in the > >Open Source applications and libraries I prefer. > > Many moons ago I started a thread on here (or was it on freenode?) > asking about lightweight alternatives to stuff and the need for a > wiki page tracking them. > > I believe that at the time, the musl wiki was insufficiently > combobulated, but it has since been fixed. The > http://busybox.net/tinyutils.html page is old is stale and never > really had good coverage, http://elinux.org/System_Size is sort of > adjacent to the topic. If we do come up with anything, can we put it > on a wiki page? That would be a perfectly acceptable topic for the wiki. Rich