Tiny Core Base > TCB Talk
Why not uClibc?
jpeters:
I don't know if this would present a problem:
" uClibc does not even attempt to ensure binary compatibility across releases.
When a new version of uClibc is released, you may or may not need to recompile
all your binaries."
roberts:
mikshaw, quoted my response correctly.
I opted for glibc to allow users to easily add in binaries and not have to be source based.
Even though, we won't host binary only extensions, because of GPL, I wanted to be perhaps, a little more open for the user community. I am still happy with this decision.
lordtangent:
@jpeters
That could be a a problem. Of course, if the commitment was made to uclibc you could Just lock on a version of uclibc.
@roberts
I've been thinking about my particular interest in Tiny (making an ad hoc disk-less grid / render farm that can boot off a Thumb Drive and not touch the hard drives of the host machine) uclibc is totally inappropriate for what I ACTUALLY want to do as it needs to be compatible with commercial software I can't count on being statically linked and/or OSS software (like ffmpeg) that might be too complex to get compiled correctly under uclibc. Not to mention the likely performance hit of compiling high performance software under uclibc. I imagine pretty much the same circumstances are true for 99% of the uses most people have for Tiny Core. Your choice to go with regular glibc for the vanilla Tiny Core is a really good choice now that I hear your reasons and think about it a little more. It's amazing you can still keep it as small as you do!
I am however still fixated on the idea of uclibc for the purely academic interest in shrinking Tiny even further, just to see how small the core could actually be made.
jpeters:
..let me know if it works with flash10 :D
tobiaus:
--- Quote from: jpeters on March 17, 2009, 06:57:01 AM ---..let me know if it works with flash10 :D
--- End quote ---
you're probably joking, but perhaps a version of uclibc in a hypothetical getflash10.tce (i think we should keep the older version too) would be worth it, if uclibc has anything to do with it.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version