Small trip on the way way back machine

["William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net>]

Some of you remember Ryan's idea of collecting a toolchain of the
good old standby shell commands written in apr, which he started here;

https://rkbloom.dyndns.org/viewsvn/porttools/trunk/

I'm not sure where he left that (I pinged him) and am unsure if anyone
else took up this challenge of replacing the old favorites.  But if
anyone knows, I'd appreciate a pointer.

If there is none active, and Ryan has little interest, does anyone else
share an interest in hacking some of these most-commonly-needed tools?

My biggie of this week is fighting with overloaded solaris and hpux boxes
with too many copies of gcc/cc, and needed to pin down which-is-which.
Of course your typical, stock 'which' doesn't support -a.

But I'd always wanted 'which' to do more, such as tell me where the heck
some specific lib or include lives on an INCLUDE or LIB path list.  So
my solution is at http://people.apache.org/~wrowe/witch.c - and I'm
considering different possible homes for it - either here at the ASF, or
elsewhere if there really isn't much interest.

Thoughts or interest?

Bill

Re: Small trip on the way way back machine

["William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net>]

Ryan Bloom wrote:
> I left it with very little done, but I never lost interest in the
> idea.  I just ran out of time.  Work and all.  I am more than happy to
> pick it back up or give my current base to the ASF for the effort.  I
> need to install a mail script on my svn machine this weekend, but then
> I'll add your program to the repo if you would like me to.

It sounds great!  Copyright statement can move to the NOTICE and it can
certainly be renamed to which, rebranded into a larger collection.  I'd
be happy to help shuttle additional submissions into the collection, as
well, when you are tied up.

Looking forward to anyone else who chimes in.

Re: Small trip on the way way back machine

[Ryan Bloom <rb...@gmail.com>]

I left it with very little done, but I never lost interest in the
idea.  I just ran out of time.  Work and all.  I am more than happy to
pick it back up or give my current base to the ASF for the effort.  I
need to install a mail script on my svn machine this weekend, but then
I'll add your program to the repo if you would like me to.

Ryan

On 4/12/07, William A. Rowe, Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
> Some of you remember Ryan's idea of collecting a toolchain of the
> good old standby shell commands written in apr, which he started here;
>
> https://rkbloom.dyndns.org/viewsvn/porttools/trunk/
>
> I'm not sure where he left that (I pinged him) and am unsure if anyone
> else took up this challenge of replacing the old favorites.  But if
> anyone knows, I'd appreciate a pointer.
>
> If there is none active, and Ryan has little interest, does anyone else
> share an interest in hacking some of these most-commonly-needed tools?
>
> My biggie of this week is fighting with overloaded solaris and hpux boxes
> with too many copies of gcc/cc, and needed to pin down which-is-which.
> Of course your typical, stock 'which' doesn't support -a.
>
> But I'd always wanted 'which' to do more, such as tell me where the heck
> some specific lib or include lives on an INCLUDE or LIB path list.  So
> my solution is at http://people.apache.org/~wrowe/witch.c - and I'm
> considering different possible homes for it - either here at the ASF, or
> elsewhere if there really isn't much interest.
>
> Thoughts or interest?
>
> Bill
>


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