From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: errno To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:20:04 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.38-ARCH; KDE/4.6.2; i686; ; ) References: <201104300116.47971.errno@cox.net> <8639kzbctm.fsf@cmarib.ramside> In-Reply-To: <8639kzbctm.fsf@cmarib.ramside> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104301620.04126.errno@cox.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames Topicbox-Message-UUID: d9ec32aa-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Saturday, April 30, 2011 03:21:09 PM smiley@zenzebra.mv.com wrote: > errno writes: > > Due to the requirements, it appears that incorporating the web as a > > 1st-class-platform in plan 9 is effectively unapproachable: > > You forgot to backtrack to your webkit/gecko choicepoint and follow > down the gecko goal tree. > Gecko is also written primarily in c++, which means porting a c++ compiler to plan 9 would still remain a prerequisite for that path also. (I haven't done a valid evaluation of gecko vs. webkit; I've built and poked around webkit, but haven't done the same for gecko. My c skills are rather humble, but my c++ skills are entirely non-existant... so I'm unable to perform a valid evaluation of the two anyhow) On Saturday, April 30, 2011 05:18:03 AM Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > Possibly another option: > * netsurf > Very cool, that's another potential port candidate that I wasn't aware of - and it's written in c, which lowers the bar quite a bit. I'll definitely take a closer look at netsurf next weekend, maybe it's a more realistic target. Thanks!