Re: [9fans] Contrib indexes

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

you can grep http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/rminnich/pkgs.ls
which is what contrib/gui uses to get a fast listing



On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net> wrote:
> Lyndon said:
>
>> You can also grab /n/sources/contrib/lyndon/contribindex which generates a
>> pretty-printed listing of people's contrib/*/INDEX files.
>
> There's been several of these. Note that I run one to update the contrib
> index on the wiki more or less daily. That version includes both things from
> INDEX files and a listing of packages using fgb's contrib program.
>        http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Contrib_index/index.html
>        /n/sources/contrib/anothy/bin/rc/contrindx
>
> Lucio said:
>
>> What I believe is missing from sources is a simple mechanism to see if
>> something I'm already somewhat familiar with has been ported successfully.
>
> I think the "resistance" you're encountering is really just people telling
> you you're mistaken. fgb's contrib (I do wish it didn't share the name with
> the section of sources) isn't perfect by any means, but it does an excellent
> job of solving the problem of "where do i find what's been ported". So do
> the INDEX files. Those are currently extant. I can't find any way what
> you're proposing would solve that better.
>
> Anthony
>
>



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Federico G. Benavento