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From: "Corey" <corey_s@qwest.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9
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On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:24, Roman Shaposhnick wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:58:35AM -0700, Corey wrote:
> > 
> > Two questions - quite likely naive, so please be kind!
> > 
> > #1 - How difficult approximately would it be to port a
> > more current release of gcc to plan9, say 4.1?
> 
>   The gcc source code is pretty messy. But let me ask you
>   a different question -- what exactly do you want to
>   achieve with gcc ?
>

Strictly speaking, gcc's just a means to an end ( for a hypothetical
project which is currently no more than an idle pipe-dream... so
take everything I say with a grain of salt or two ):  I'm really  just 
looking for objective-c support on plan 9; doesn't matter to me 
via which compiler this was provided, but I figure porting gcc to
plan 9 would be easier than somehow talking someone into 
extending 9c with objective-c support.

Why do I want objective-c on plan 9?

I think that plan 9 would make an interesting and appealing base for a
desktop operating system; objective-c and GNUstep is also a  very
interesting and appealing development environment - hey, why not
experiment? Combine the two, and it seems (to me) that a very 
persuasive, light-weight/fast, general purpose desktop and
development environment/platform could potentially be built.


> > "If you have gcc on plan 9, will simply compiling the unix code work?"
> 
>   It might, but IMHO it'll defeat the purpose.
> 

I completely understand, which is why I was hesitent to even open my
mouth on the subject; especially as I'm a mere hobbyist.

I really appreciate plan 9's focus, and agree that it should be maintained.
The whole point of this idea I'm toying with is to ditch the cruft and
luggage of today's linux-based os's.