Re: miscutils

[Pádraig Brady]

James Youngman wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 1:19 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
>> It has been proposed to start the miscutils project,
>>  to include utilities not seen as core to the system.
>>  I.E. utilities that are of less general use, but
>>  still worth maintaining and distributing.
> 
> Did this ever get started?   I tried searching on Savannah and on the
> web, but without luck.    There seem to be many hits, but none seemed
> relevant.
> 
> I was reminded of this by a remark that Jim made about it the other day.

No it was not officially started as I asked around for
what people would like included but got very few suggestions.
There were a couple of utils that I had (truncate & timeout),
but they are now queued up for inclusion in coreutils.

So I'm not sure another project is required/desired.
There is the moreutils project already in debian/ubuntu:
http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/moreutils.html
So I would suggest people direct to that and
I offer to help with that project.

thanks,
Pádraig.