From 3f928a7612c2fa675d5424573411cce9eef64db6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shlomi Fish Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2020 15:48:43 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] [README] Revise some suboptimal phrasing. Also incorporated the change commentary by @Arcterus. ( Thanks! ). --- README.md | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 80ec9d344..8626b0595 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -15,18 +15,20 @@ uutils coreutils ----------------------------------------------- uutils is an attempt at writing universal (as in cross-platform) CLI -utils in [Rust](http://www.rust-lang.org). This repo is to aggregate the GNU -coreutils rewrites. +utilities in [Rust](http://www.rust-lang.org). This repository is intended to +aggregate GNU coreutils rewrites. Why? ---- -Many GNU, Linux and other utils are pretty awesome, and obviously +Many GNU, Linux and other utilities are useful, and obviously [some](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net) [effort](http://unxutils.sourceforge.net) has been spent in the past to port them to Windows. However, those projects -are either old, abandoned, hosted on CVS, written in platform-specific C, etc. +are either old and abandoned, are hosted on CVS (which makes it more difficult +for new contributors to contribute to them), are written in platform-specific C, or +suffer from other issues. -Rust provides a good, platform-agnostic way of writing systems utils that are easy +Rust provides a good, platform-agnostic way of writing systems utilities that are easy to compile anywhere, and this is as good a way as any to try and learn it. Requirements