From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Smiley's plan9port mod 1 ver. 1.0 released
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:45:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <241d306f4a1be42c129220f8a8e42e9b@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <868vksodg5.fsf@cmarib.ramside>
On Fri Jan 27 20:11:33 EST 2012, smiley@icebubble.org wrote:
> erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> writes:
>
> > what's the practical advantage of having m hardcoded paths rather
> > than n? does your sam -d edit complete a few microseconds faster?
>
> The idea is to eventually eliminate all hard-coded paths. Those files
> that still contain them are either in lanugages alien to me (such as
> troff), or pertain to platorms with which I am unfamiliar (such as OS
> X). Hopefully, someone who's more familiar with those systems will be
> able to snipe off the remaining 5 paths. Since it's all open source (or
> at least well-defined), a hard-coded path count == 0 is theoretically
> possible to achieve.
as you say yourself, that's an idea, the code still does the same thing.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-28 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-23 8:58 smiley
2012-01-23 10:02 ` Lucio De Re
2012-01-23 11:52 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-01-23 11:59 ` dexen deVries
2012-01-23 17:03 ` Tristan
2012-01-23 15:15 ` erik quanstrom
2012-01-23 15:26 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-01-28 0:52 ` smiley
2012-01-28 1:45 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-01-23 17:48 ` Anthony Sorace
2012-02-04 1:27 ` [9fans] Smiley's plan9port mod 1 ver. 1.1 released (BUGFIX) smiley
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