Re: Plan 9 annoyances (was: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp)

[anothy@cosym.net]

// Yeah, but Plan 9 is "free", at least in scare quotes, and AFAICT
// Inferno is not.  "It runs under Inferno" is therefore considerably
// materially different than Plan 9.

most of Inferno is as "free" (using the same or lighter quotes as in
Plan 9 being "free"); some is not. the free parts, which include
Charon, can be downloaded from Vita Nuova's site.

// From this it sounds rather as if splufty new applications for Plan 9
// are not going to happen, and that new work is all happening over
// in Inferno land.  Is that accurate?

i doubt it. there's lots of inteligent C programmers running around
on this list alone. for various reasons, interesting things continue to
happen in Plan 9. but if something can more easially, simply,
quickly, and correctly (!) be done in Inferno than "native" Plan 9,
and can thus run on Plan 9 and bunches of other OSs, as is the case
with Charon, why duplicate the effort in Plan 9? i'd certainly rather
people interested in working on Plan 9 work towards making the
_other_ interesting things happen, like 9P2000, IPv6, USB support,
better driver support, etc. there's lots of room for interesting work
in both Plan 9 and Inferno.
-α.