From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 09:29:38 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <3f7f59f924c787e70150e1bdb1b82549@mikro.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53] Topicbox-Message-UUID: ed39a2aa-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Go is in a different league: Heretical as it may seem, we can generate > Go binaries without compelling all Plan 9 installations to include the > Go toolchain, no matter how valuable some of us may perceive it. HG > without Python is a dead rat. that's a partially binary distribution. a proper, full, distribution would have the same issue. and go introduces new issues, it's much more in flux than python. the risk is that a go update could then break the system. and only runs on 386. it does not run on plan 9 mips, arm, or amd64. - erik