From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <8caa71437990033289de6701b565b4a7@9netics.com> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:36:00 -0200 Message-ID: <32d987d51003081336p1eceddfh7a77f0e7283e536@mail.gmail.com> From: "Federico G. Benavento" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Contrib indexes Topicbox-Message-UUID: e51d9fb6-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 you can grep http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/rminnich/pkgs.l= s which is what contrib/gui uses to get a fast listing On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Anthony Sorace 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 f= rom > INDEX files and a listing of packages using fgb's contrib program. > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Cont= rib_index/index.html > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0/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 successfull= y. > > I think the "resistance" you're encountering is really just people tellin= g > you you're mistaken. fgb's contrib (I do wish it didn't share the name wi= th > the section of sources) isn't perfect by any means, but it does an excell= ent > 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 > > --=20 Federico G. Benavento