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Subject: Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)
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> I am suggesting breaking out just the diffs and new mkfiles in
> a separate tree so that one can do
>
>     mk all && mk install
>
> This can fetch the necessary bits, apply patches, build, test,
> create downloadable binaries (with crypto signatures if you
> care) etc.  As part of this it can mk any dependencies.  One
> of which can pull in changes for ape. Right now all this seems
> rather manual. As more changes are merged back in the upstream
> sources, port diffs can reduce.

patches are the plan 9 standard way of doing
things.  they've been submitted, and can be
applied by anyone.

or, you can run 9atom.

- erik