From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <201003291821.54838.corey@bitworthy.net> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:19:32 +0200 Message-ID: <138575261003300319v36aa5612sbb0f3938a4d16769@mail.gmail.com> From: hugo rivera To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan ? (was: native install) Topicbox-Message-UUID: f8e623c4-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I agree with Steve. I like the community approach to this matter: if plan9 doesn't have what you need, do it yourself; if you do something that might be useful for others share it and see what happens. Being a newbie myself I find very hard to write my own utilities, but that's a good way to learn ;-) 2010/3/30 Steve Simon : >> No one's willing to spearhead a "General Purpose 9" experiment, and no >> one's interested in collaborating on and contributing to such a project? >> >> "If you want [general purpose], you know where to get it." seems to >> be the period that ends all such discussion. > > I wouldn't quite agree, the discussions usually end one of three ways: > > - somone wants somthing like gnome, and are encouraged to run linux. > > - somone wants "the community" to port smthing like gnome and noone is > =C2=A0interested so they get bored and go away. > > - somone wants to write some code to solve a problem they have with plan9 > =C2=A0and the just get on with it and tell the list when its done. > > An example: > > I need SVN support at work, cinap has wrapped up his linuxemu with the sn= v > client and the apropriate shared libraries (thanks cinap). This allows me= to > continue using plan9 (as I do every day, all day). > > In parallel I now have written a webdav client which I hope will become > a DeltaV/SVN client for plan9. I feel its worth writing as I think it is > interesting to try and fit the plan9 file model to SVN's version control = model. > > I wanted it, I got on with it and wrote it. > >> I can't help but wonder: where's the crux of the inertia? > > An interesting question. If you can garner enthusism from the list > perhaps you can be "the one" to spearhead a new burst of enthusism? > > -Steve > > --=20 Hugo