Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

[errno <errno@cox.net>]

On Sunday, May 01, 2011 08:15:12 PM erik quanstrom wrote:
> > The freedom _from_ an extra, extraneous, alien environment. [1]
>
> but it's a web browser.  it's already an alien environment.  :-)
>

Man I had hunch you would say that.   :)

Inferno is an alien environment too, but you don't run linuxemu
to run linux-hosted inferno - you run a native inferno directly on
plan 9.

I'd like to run a "more native web" directly on plan 9.

The idea is to remove the "middle-man".  That's the 'extra'
part of the "extra, extraneous, alien" I had referred to.

(and, forget about the "browser" part of the "web" for now - I think
web _browsers_ suck worse than the web itself - I'm just concerned
with the web _engine_ for now)

> > The freedom _for_ building a variety of native front-ends.
> >
> > The freedom _for_ integrating with existing native libraries.
>
> what's the advantage here?
>

The same basic advantages you'd get for running native plan 9 inferno
rather than running inferno for linux under linuxemu (if that's even
possible).

Or largely the same reasons I prefer to run the vim ported from ape,
than a vim running in a vnc window or under linuxemu (again, if that's
even possible - I haven't yet played w/ linuxemu), but a purely native
vim would be even better; even though vim may be considered alien.

> i don't want to build a front-end to
> a web browser,
>

I imagine there's a large host of things on crontrib that you yourself
have no personal interest in developing with or using.

> and i don't really care if it links against libc or whatever.
>

And I don't really care to learn and write limbo for inferno. Thus,
for me, linking against libc on plan 9 is considered more optimal.

On Sunday, May 01, 2011 08:39:02 PM ron minnich wrote:
> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 8:11 PM, errno <errno@cox.net> wrote:
> > etc.
>
> Just wondering if you have looked at webfs.
>

I've browsed the source, a few months ago; when I first felt the lack
of a more current-standards-conforming web experience. (I keep
saying "web experience" so as not to tie myself to "web browser".)