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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:24:06 -0500
From: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Best place to discuss other lightweight libraries?

On 04/22/2013 11:40:37 AM, LM wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Luca Barbato <lu_zero@...too.org>  
> 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.

> 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?

Rob

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