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Date: Thu,  1 Oct 2009 23:23:24 +1000
From: Sam Watkins <sam@nipl.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: [9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting
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On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 06:22:28PM +0800, sqweek wrote:
> http://gsoc.cat-v.org/projects/kencc/

Looks good, I can't seem to find how to download that, is there anonymous hg
access or a tarball at all?

Speaking of hg - I think we should patch it to support empty directories so
that the inferno checkout actually builds.  Or else commit some hidden file in
those directories?

I tried to check out v9fs, but the compressed git repo without checkout is over
300Mb.  The checkout was going to be more than that, but it failed due to my
server running out of disk space.  Why is that project, a filesystem, larger
than the entire linux kernel and several times larger than all of plan 9?
Or am I missing something here?

I want to port some of my programs to plan 9 soon. I'll read some of the plan 9
source, hopefully I can improve my C coding so that my programs don't look like
broken bricks among jewels.

thanks,

Sam