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Date: Mon,  2 Dec 2013 15:45:53 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)
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On Mon Dec  2 15:44:27 EST 2013, bakul@bitblocks.com wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:38:21 EST erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
> > On Mon Dec  2 15:25:33 EST 2013, 0intro@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > > python on plan9 can't even handle the codereview extension.
> > > >
> > > > i believe that's false.  jas' port does a lot of things the
> > > > prior port does not.  it's on bitbucket.
> > >
> > > I agree with Erik. Jeff Sickel did a very good job on the
> > > modern Python port.
> > >
> > > If you are afraid to compile it, I'm providing up-to-date
> > > binaries (Python 2.7.5 and Mercurial 2.8.1) for Plan 9:
> >
> > it won't compile unless you're running 9atom. or have integrated
> > the (extensive) changes to ape, especially in the sockets area.
>
> Another reason to break out ports. Ideally they should
> work any plan9 fork.

i don't see how that follows.  changes were needed to ape.
the patches are sitting in /n/sources/patch.

- erik