From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] sam vs acme From: rog@vitanuova.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-resapztbayxonfkpbvnjciqucu" Message-Id: <20010710102311.AA4B61998A@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:32:39 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c483bf08-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-resapztbayxonfkpbvnjciqucu Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i've not used wily, but IMHO there are some places where a unix-based acme clone could never approach the real acme, namely those places where acme leverages the power of plan 9 (e.g. the filesystem interface, and the stuff you can do with a simple shell command under plan 9 which is impossible/extremely involved under unix) much of the power of acme comes from living in happy symbiosis with plan 9 - acme under unix is kind of like a hacked off limb; it looks similar to the original, but won't work so well... > [eg. we had edit interfaces three or was it four years ago :)] presumably by this you mean the named-pipe RPC interface, not the sam command Edit command? (which doesn't seem to be in wily) cheers, rog. --upas-resapztbayxonfkpbvnjciqucu Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu> Received: from punt-1.mail.demon.net by mailstore for rog@vitanuova.com id 994756045:10:10776:31; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:07:25 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by punt-1.mail.demon.net id aa1010866; 10 Jul 2001 9:07 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.6.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id C90D3199EC; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 05:07:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mercury.bath.ac.uk (mercury.bath.ac.uk [138.38.32.81]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 8A468199DD for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 05:06:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from news by mercury.bath.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 15JtOK-0002TR-00 for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:01:12 +0100 Received: from GATEWAY by bath.ac.uk with netnews for 9fans@cse.psu.edu (9fans@cse.psu.edu) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-ID: Organization: York University References: <20010625002848.2151519A05@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] sam vs acme Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:00:48 GMT anothy@cosym.net writes: > wily is a good effort, but is far inferior. i don't like using it. in which way is it /far inferior/ please? [eg. we had edit interfaces three or was it four years ago :)] sure we don't have a general plumb mechanism, but we are working on it. can you be specific? i maintain wily, and i'ld like to make sure it is not "that far inferior" to acme... thanks... oz -- www.cs.yorku.ca/~oz | if you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe york u. computer science | we'll just have to make some! -- hobbes --upas-resapztbayxonfkpbvnjciqucu--