"Michael D. Setzer II" <[email protected]> writes: > On 28 Mar 2026 at 8:06, Sam James wrote: > > From: Sam James <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Copies to: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Question on what is the official latest version of busybox? > Organization: Gentoo > Date sent: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:06:04 +0000 > >> "Michael D. Setzer II via busybox" <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > Web Page shows. >> > 27 September 2024 -- BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable) >> > >> > BusyBox 1.37.0. (git, patches, how to add a patch) >> > >> > Sizes of busybox-1.36.0 and busybox-1.37.0 (with equivalent config, >> > static musl build): >> > >> > text data bss dec hex filename >> > 1022792 559 4988 1028339 fb0f3 >> > busybox-1.36.0/busybox >> > 1024327 559 4988 1029874 fb6f2 >> > busybox-1.37.0/busybox >> > >> > The link for git is: >> > https://git.busybox.net/busybox/log/?h=1_37_stable >> > >> > I use git clone git://busybox.net/busybox.git >> > and build and it shows. >> > BusyBox v1.38.0.git (2026-03-27 22:43:15 ChST) multi-call binary. >> >> '.git' means it is an unreleased version. >> >> > >> > An Web search via AI gives this. >> >> It's nonsense. >> > Question is then? does the page show the git link for 1.37.0 then?
I can't load busybox.net (again) right now, but linking to the branch to encourage people to do backports happens sometimes. > > Page shows > 27 September 2024 -- BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable) > but git link has it as stable? > https://git.busybox.net/busybox/log/?h=1_37_stable > > Then there is difference between the current date and 27 > September 2024? That's about 1 1/2 years. > > Extracted the busybox-1.37.0.tar.bz2 to a directory, and did a git > clone. > did a diff -r on directories and comes with 25187 diff37-38b lines. > > Removing the Only in liness it drops to 24085 > > So that would be a significant difference in the 1.37 and the 1.38 > gits? > > Know that AI result are often not fully correct, but think would be > interesting to at least mention the 1.38 git, and show that work is > being done, and it isn't a 1 1/2 year old project? > Projects often don't do that. > Know lots of work is done with the project. > > My project uses it, and I've been maintainer of it going back to > 2004. And previous maintainers had the busybox. > > Thanks to all that have put all the work into it. > Have a nice day. > > > > +------------------------------------------------------------+ > Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) > mailto:[email protected] > mailto:[email protected] > mailto:[email protected] > Guam - Where America's Day Begins > G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer > http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ > +------------------------------------------------------------+
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