From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 02:27:32 +0100 From: Uriel To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] p9sk2 Message-ID: <20051005012732.GG19776@server4.lensbuddy.com> References: <04c08a76891832f9136486a654335326@9netics.com> <20051005001134.GF19776@server4.lensbuddy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 94b0625c-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:19:21PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: > > Can we kill /n/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/unix/drawterm? it's outdated > > and misleading. > > Outdated, yes. Misleading, no. Once dt2k is a suitable replacement, > I will put it there. Dt2k is still a work in progress and the old > drawterm still works. As others have noted dt2k seems to work fine, I just checked it, not only it seems to work fine and feels much faster than the old drawterm, it fixes most of the really annoying bugs that plagued the old drawterm, it also simplifies things because we can forget about the old 9P. If dt2k is not perfect yet, I don't care, it's much better than the old drawterm, of course hiding it in a vault I doubt anyone will test it. > > If someone could put a set of precompiled drawterm binaries in sources > > it would be great, the least sites we have to keep track of, the better. > Eventually this will happen. Things move slowly, but with > such little time to do any work, there's no point in doing > work before it's time. Of course, if you're volunteering, ... I have put Linux and FreeBSD binaries in: /n/sources/contrib/uriel/drawterm/2005-10-05/ I will put the OpenBSD binaries tomorrow once I install X on my obsd box. If someone has other binaries(specially windows) please send them to me and I will put them there. Release early, release often, and if you don't like it, look at Google. uriel