[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <CAK4o1WyjK3aToP76uFyNTsxoqQWetVXLQ1q3wx_3WjRnH1j8Zg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:23:01 +0000
From: Justin Cormack <justin@...cialbusservice.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Drafting 1.0 announcements
On 10 Mar 2014 06:23, "Rich Felker" <dalias@...ifal.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
They look pretty good some comments inline.
>
> 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.
Something about what 1.0 means for these users? Or even just the contains
all mandatory POSIX stuff?
> Blurb for news sites that accept moderate-length submissions:
>
> The musl libc project has released version 1.0, the result of
Add URL here?
> three years of development and testing. Musl is a lightweight,
> fast, simple, MIT-licensed, correctness-oriented alternative to
Standards compliant?
> the GNU C library (glibc), uClibc, or Android's Bionic. At this
Mention klibc too? Might persuade them one day.
> 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
Mention that you can just use it out of the box you don't need a new distro.
> 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.
>
Content of type "text/html" skipped
Powered by blists - more mailing lists
Confused about mailing lists and their use?
Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia
and check out these
guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.
