Re: Drafting 1.0 announcements

[Justin Cormack <justin@specialbusservice.com>]

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On 10 Mar 2014 06:23, "Rich Felker" <dalias@aerifal.cx> wrote:
>
> The below are DRAFTS, not actual announcements of a release. I'm
> posting them now in search of suggestions for improving them.
>
> Rich

Oh and a mention of static linking might be good too it is a common entry
point to using Musl.

>
> Short release announcement for freecode and anyone already familiar
> with musl just needing to know about the new release:
>
>     This release adds support for a soft-float ABI variant on MIPS as
>     well as new experimental ports to SuperH and x32 (the new 32-bit
>     ABI for x86_64). Two floating point printf bugs have been fixed
>     including a rounding error and off-by-one buffer overflow that
>     could occur only when printing certain denormal values with
>     thousands of places of precision. A second overflow issue was
>     fixed in wcsxfrm where a buffer length of zero was misinterpreted.
>     Several other minor bug fixes and compatibility improvements have
>     also been made.
>
> Blurb for news sites that accept moderate-length submissions:
>
>     The musl libc project has released version 1.0, the result of
>     three years of development and testing. Musl is a lightweight,
>     fast, simple, MIT-licensed, correctness-oriented alternative to
>     the GNU C library (glibc), uClibc, or Android's Bionic. At this
>     point musl provides all mandatory C99 and POSIX interfaces (plus a
>     lot of widely-used extensions), and well over 5000 packages are
>     known to build successfully against musl.
>
>     Several options are available for trying musl. Compiler toolchains
>     are available from the musl-cross project, and several new
>     musl-based Linux distributions are available (Sabotage and
>     Snowflake, among others). Some well-established distributions
>     including OpenWRT and Gentoo now have musl-based variants too, and
>     others (Aboriginal, Alpine, Bedrock, Dragora) are in the process
>     of switching to musl as their default libc.
>
>     [Optional: provide links for all other projects mentioned?]
>
> Or a bit shorter, for sites that don't accept long submissions:
>
>     Musl libc 1.0 is now available. Musl is a light, fast, simple,
>     MIT-licensed, correctness-oriented alternative to the GNU C
>     library (glibc), uClibc, or Android's Bionic, providing all
>     mandatory C99 and POSIX interfaces plus many widely-used
>     extensions. Well over 5000 packages are known to build against
>     musl. Several musl-based Linux distributions are now available
>     including musl-based variants of OpenWRT and Gentoo and several
>     new distributions built around musl. Compiler toolchains are also
>     available from the musl-cross project.
>

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