From: Anthony Sorace <anothy@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Two suggestions for ape (was: egrep for Plan9)
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:10:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <509071940910270910m5682f735l75b50ef55cea4d30@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <acdb5ee1ab5ae88e19003e44288f0102@coraid.com>
// Since the purpose of ape is to emulate the environment
// configure is expected to run in...
false premise. the purpose of ape is to provide an ANSI/POSIX environment.
it's purpose is as much for outbound porting as inbound, and maintaining the
actual target is more important in that direction.
the purpose of *conf* is to match the environment it finds itself in. as such,
submitting modifications to that is clearly the correct long-term plan. you're
correct that modifications to *conf* won't help already-distributed packages,
but that seems like not a very good reason to give up the nicely specified
target for ape ("ANSI/POSIX Environment" being a lot easier to define
than "Whatever-Gnu-Assumes-This-Week Environment"). having something
else,
not ape, targeted at broader compatibility might also be useful (some people
have complained about ape's need for defining symbols to use non-ANSI
libraries, for example), but it's a different enough objective that it
ought to be
a different thing (GAPE?).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-27 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-23 10:43 Dimitry Golubovsky
2009-10-23 14:06 ` Jason Catena
2009-10-23 14:12 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-10-23 15:06 ` W B Hacker
2009-10-23 15:38 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-10-23 15:54 ` Dmitry Golubovsky
2009-10-23 16:08 ` Jason Catena
2009-10-23 18:18 ` Tim Newsham
2009-10-23 18:58 ` Jason Catena
2009-10-23 21:19 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-10-26 10:19 ` Dmitry Golubovsky
2009-10-26 13:15 ` hiro
2009-10-26 14:15 ` Dmitry Golubovsky
2009-10-26 15:06 ` [9fans] Two suggestions for ape W B Hacker
[not found] ` <636733be-5009-4311-97ab-dc81634dbd06@p15g2000vbl.googlegroups.co>
2009-10-26 20:10 ` [9fans] Two suggestions for ape (was: egrep for Plan9) erik quanstrom
2009-10-27 16:10 ` Anthony Sorace [this message]
2009-10-27 16:16 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-27 16:25 ` ron minnich
2009-10-27 16:37 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-27 17:56 ` tlaronde
2009-10-27 21:43 ` Tim Newsham
2009-10-27 23:14 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-10-28 0:23 ` Dave Eckhardt
2009-10-28 9:45 ` tlaronde
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