From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: X Window System
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 10:55:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60710011055u3b3c84cfr89151018059f29d1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0710011322020.18776@mail.surferz.net>
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On 10/1/07, marina@surferz.net <marina@surferz.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>
> > * app <porttikivi@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >> So, if not X, then how about some higher (or eperhaps lower?) layer
> >> libraries (qtk? Qt? Gecko?) ported so that porting the 10 (or 100)
> >> best known FOSS packages (whatever they are) would become more
> >> possible?
> >
> > Porting libs like gdk to plan9 would be cool.
> >
> > But you shouldn't forget that many libs should be heavily
> > restructured and cleaned up.
> >
> >> How about a project to take something like Firefox and restructure the
> >> whole sw so that best modules would be kept and other modules re-
> >> implemented /dev/draw way and Rio way?
> >
> > Huh, that's an really HUGE plan. I'm a little bit involved
> > in moz and know what I'm talking about ;-O
> >
>
> Why not start with something a bit smaller. ...like making SSH2 work. We
> use plan9 for work a lot and not having SSH2 working is a large hassle.
I just asked about this the other day... Wondering where it is :-)
I'm not sure what's left to be done to make it go...
Might even throw some money in the pot for someone to finish that project
> as the crypto application is a bit beyond me.
I think bounties for Open Source projects are neat, until someone decides
not to maintain it :-)
However, they can sometimes get the ball rolling in a way that lets novices
help with maintenance after the "experts" have moved on.
Dave
> --- Marina Brown (tsygry)
>
>
>
> >
> > cu
> > --
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce:
> > http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce
> > Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions:
> > http://patches.metux.de/
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-24 9:14 [9fans] " pavlovetsky
2007-09-24 10:11 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2007-09-24 10:31 ` tlaronde
2007-09-24 11:43 ` [9fans] " pavlovetsky
2007-09-24 12:18 ` Steve Simon
2007-10-01 10:12 ` app
2007-10-01 11:40 ` Kernel Panic
2007-10-01 12:13 ` lucio
2007-10-01 13:04 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-01 13:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-01 13:38 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-01 15:26 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-10-01 15:23 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-10-01 15:53 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-01 16:44 ` ron minnich
2007-10-02 8:35 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-10-01 17:24 ` marina
2007-10-01 17:47 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-10-01 17:56 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-01 17:58 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-10-01 18:01 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-01 18:09 ` ron minnich
2007-10-01 18:19 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-10-01 18:31 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-10-01 19:32 ` marina
2007-10-01 17:55 ` David Leimbach [this message]
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