Dearth of Tiny Core Software Applications

[Tinysidhu]

Hi All, this is my first post. First of all, I love the distro, the simplicity is truly wonderful. I want to keep using it and am discovering new things. I have read the year 2013 book and must say that there has been so much thought put into how people will use it and the design simplicity creates a powerful tool which can be flexibly applied to a lot of use cases. This distro is a work of love and a work of powerful engineering.

Either I have not found it or they don't exist - I am looking for other Linux utilities like espanso, croc, woof, a wiki server, markup/markdown editors or lex. Are these packages just not available for TCL or I have not found the repositories? I'd love to contribute and make these packages. So my exploration continues.

[CentralWare]

@Tinysidhu: Welcome to the forum!

I'd love to contribute and make these packages.

People who would like to see packages X, Y or Z available through the repository are more than welcome to contribute!
Start off by reading the Wiki content regarding Creating Extensions.
Take care and enjoy the exploration!

[CardealRusso]

I've never heard about these programs.
About croc and woof, it seems to be some kind of http server for a single file and a single download? (although there are more options) for this specific objective you can use something very simple like

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{ echo -ne "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: $(wc -c <$1)\r\n\r\n"; cat $1; } | nc -l -p $2

https://nakkaya.com/2009/04/15/using-netcat-for-file-transfers/

[CentralWare]

woof: (Web Offer One File) cute concept: launch a socket (http) and transmit a file when a user lands, then disconnect.
croc: Sounds like a one-on-one peer (file based) network with some decent bells and whistles
espanso: "Espanso is a cross-platform text expander tool written in Rust. A text expander lets you use shortcuts instead of typing long words and sentences."

I'm not one to judge the usefulness of an application; I don't personally have need for such apps, but someone out there must as at least some of them are on the bigger repos.

[core-user]

Be careful - Woof is a way of creating Puppy Linux spinoffs, been around for years! 

https://wikka.puppylinux.com/Woof

Also - https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/woof-ce.html