Bug#443370: ITP: asmutils -- coreutils replacement written in i386 assembler

[Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>]

On 11148 March 1977, Andreas Fleckl wrote:

> * Package name    : asmutils
>   Version         : 0.18
>   Upstream Author : Various Authors <http://asm.sourceforge.net/asmutils/CREDITS>* URL             : http://asm.sourceforge.net/asmutils.html* License         : GPL v2
>   Programming Lang: i386 Assembler
>   Description     : coreutils replacement written in i386 assembler
> asmutils is a set of miscellaneous utilities written in assembly language, targeted on embedded systems and small 
> distributions (e.g. installation or rescue disks); also it contains a small libc and a crypto library. It features 
> the smallest possible size and memory requirements, the fastest speed, and offers fairly good functionality.

Doesnt sound too good for the archive, IMO
- Limited to i386 only, so useless for 95% of the architectures
- inventing the wheel once again (*sigh*)
  time should better get invested into making either coreutils code or
  the compiler better
- yet another libc and crypto lib, thats "especially" what we need.


-- 
bye Joerg
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