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From: "andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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> Given that progress is likely to be evolutionary rather than
> revolutionary, what kind of system or environment do you see that has
> potential to wean people from autoconf with as minimal hassle as
> possible?

several times in the past i have been in a situation where i have
booted an old plan9 cd with missing incorrect binaries. in those cases
i have always resorted to mounting the latest set off sources and
either compiling them or (more often) just running the binaries off
the Bell-Labs servers.

perhaps the future _could_ be just providing an interface to the
required build libraries to those who dislike downloading binaries :)

perhaps i'm naive, but i've been spoiled with p9 :)