From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:50:27 +0100 From: Martin Neubauer To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno Message-ID: <20070226115026.GA88218@shodan.homeunix.net> References: <13426df10702260119y1d6c77deub0e832482776bb89@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <13426df10702260119y1d6c77deub0e832482776bb89@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 14a0a2c8-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 * ron minnich (rminnich@gmail.com) wrote: > I prefer to go optimistic. I'm looking at Qt to see what it would take > to have it drive libdraw on linux, just out of curiosity. If Qt can > work on libdraw, I wonder if it could ever be native to Plan 9. > > Hey, if we got Qt on Plan 9, we might actually have a GUI that people > don't hate right away ... then we can slowly, gradually suck them into > the system ... slowly ... gradually ... until they're running rio > without noticing ... > > ron One problem could be that Qt is C++ based. (Well, sort of, it uses an own preprocessor which parses the source code and apparently hasn't been updated to recognise some of the newer language features of the last twelve years or so.) The reason I know this is that I have to wade through this kind of things at work. A Plan 9 or Inferno based phone would really be neat, though. Martin