Re: [9fans] plan9port lacks exportfs server

["Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>]

On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 10:20 -0700, Russ Cox wrote:
> > Hence the question -- would you be in favor
> > of continue adding things as needed. And
> > if so, what kind of of groundwork would
> > you expect from the contributors?
>
> Usually it is as simple as adding it to your own tree,
> adapting the mkfile, and making it build.

Absolutely! And for the internal project I'm already
doing exactly that for nfsserver. My question had
more to do with the usability issues, rather than
engineering. It seems that useful bits that didn't
get into plan9port right away tend to be scattered
throughout "other trees" instead of being available
at a canonical location. 9pcon comes readily to
mind, but I'm sure there are others. Personally, I've
only stumbled on a need to fetch 9pcon so far plus
my own changes, but even that can be described as
a mild inconvenience.

Thus, I was thinking that perhaps if you could
lay the ground rules for how new things could
be added to your canonical plan9port tree these
little annoyances could be dealt with.

Thanks,
Roman.