From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <14ec7b180710011047x16f1de27s687054112d71e59@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 11:47:07 -0600 From: "andrey mirtchovski" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: X Window System In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1190553102.693814.317030@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> <1191144354.638906.73590@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <20071001152313.GA3832@nibiru.local> Topicbox-Message-UUID: c9774dfa-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i'll finish the sshv2 port of libssh i was working on. send the money to me :) On 10/1/07, marina@surferz.net wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > * app wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > >> So, if not X, then how about some higher (or eperhaps lower?) layer > >> libraries (qtk? Qt? Gecko?) ported so that porting the 10 (or 100) > >> best known FOSS packages (whatever they are) would become more > >> possible? > > > > Porting libs like gdk to plan9 would be cool. > > > > But you shouldn't forget that many libs should be heavily > > restructured and cleaned up. > > > >> How about a project to take something like Firefox and restructure the > >> whole sw so that best modules would be kept and other modules re- > >> implemented /dev/draw way and Rio way? > > > > Huh, that's an really HUGE plan. I'm a little bit involved > > in moz and know what I'm talking about ;-O > > > > Why not start with something a bit smaller. ...like making SSH2 work. We > use plan9 for work a lot and not having SSH2 working is a large hassle. > > Might even throw some money in the pot for someone to finish that project > as the crypto application is a bit beyond me. > > --- Marina Brown (tsygry) > > > > > > > cu > > -- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: > > http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce > > Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: > > http://patches.metux.de/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >