Re: [9fans] plan9port update

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

Excellent.  I'll be working from CVS for my attempt to SDL-ify
libdraw... I see a bunch of files have been touched.

Dave


On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:23:18 -0500, Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a big update to Plan 9 port available now, at
> http://swtch.com/plan9port.
> 
> The most significant user-visible change is that the entire system is
> documented.  Intro(1) is a good starting point.
> 
> The most significant code change is that the thread library now uses
> pthreads and ucontext(3) when possible.  This means that programs should
> work properly on Linux 2.6 now, and that real threading can be used on
> SunOS and Mac OS X now.  It also means porting the system is easier --
> there's no sparc assembly at all in the tree, for example.  Finally, it means
> that various hangs people saw when using the acme Edit command
> are finally gone.
> 
> There are many many small improvements since the last real release,
> far too many to list individually.   Intro(1) gives a list of man pages that
> describe interesting differences from Plan 9 proper.
> 
> Thanks to everyone who helped test for the last week or two.
> I've built and run the system on Mac OS X 10.3, Linux 2.4, 2.6, FreeBSD 5,
> and SunOS 5.9 today, but there may well be small things that need to be
> fixed still for other platforms.  If you're feeling a bit conservative you
> might wait a week or two to let others find those.
> 
> Enjoy.
> Russ
>