Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Go (Was: GNU/Linux/Plan 9 disto)

[Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:48:41 +0200 Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>  wrote:
> The crucial feature is that any changes to the Go distribution should slot
> into the Plan 9 port of Go as seamlessly as possible.

Agree with the goal.

>            As it may take me many months to get the project completed,
> I'd rather work in tandem with the Go runtime developers, who seem to
> have taken the same route as I have, namely to include their changes _in_
> the Go distribution as they go along.

Iteratively plan9 specific diffs will get smaller and smaller
but it will take a long time.  This is precisely why I
suggested do a quick port (of course, while minimizing
changes). That allows people start using go in plan9 as soon
as possible and you will then likely have more help. In
parallel you can work with the go developers to integrate your
changes.

> > I'd first fix Make.* to use byacc, or even better, p9p yacc, and
> > run all the tests on a bsd and just fix %error-verbose. If they pass,
> > no need to port bison or may be even byacc.
>
> That's an interesting approach I had not considered.  It involves
> considerable throw-away work, but it will be instructive.  Right now
> my priority is to smooth out quite a few wrinkles in my repository,
> where the last batch of changes needs extensive rework, not all caused
> by Bison-itis.  As soon as I have my head out of the water, I'll follow
> the much appreciated advice I have received from you all.

I already did the easy part!  p9p yacc needs to be updated to
p9 yacc as it doesn't understand //.  byacc works but things
fail at bisonerrors script use.