[9fans] X on Plan 9

[anothy@cosym.net]

the APE paper (i think) mentions that APE has been used to
build X11 on Plan 9, but that it's not included in the
distribution because it's too much work to maintain. i
imagine the presence of the very good vnc client also helps
negate the need for X for most people.

however, shame me as it does to admit it, i'd still find a
local X server very useful. there are about a half-dozen X
programs i find useful, and i'm not up to porting them all
the Plan 9's /dev/draw.

so... understanding that it's totally unsupported... can
whoever did the work in the Labs either share whatever
changes were made? i assume that, at least, X had to be told
how to talk to /dev/draw. i suspect various things also
needed to be done to convince it to 'configure' properly.

if nobody has any info, i'm going to give it a shot myself,
but X is an intimidating (read: freakin' huge!) body of
crap^Wcode, and i'd rather not duplicate work someone else's
already done.
-α.