From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <51bc2f6c8ea871baffdc15d5d6433b51@plan9.bell-labs.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Webbrowser From: "Russ Cox" In-Reply-To: <77460E19-396D-11D7-8519-000A27AE643E@sockfarm.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 20:19:31 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 50221ab8-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Having gcc doesn't mean we like it. I have yet to use gcc for anything -- even my recent Perl 5.8.0 port still uses pcc, which is just a wrapper around 8c et al. The main `benefit' of gcc seems to be that you could compile C++ code, but you'd still be locked in the APE, making it harder to integrate well with the rest of the system. On a related note, I looked at links for a while today. I did most of the work for a port, but there's a big select loop at the heart of it that I just didn't want to deal with cutting through. I also didn't write the frame buffer, mouse, and keyboard code, but those look easy once you kill off select. In my frustration, I tried i again. No good. Then I tried charon again. It's come along quite a bit since the last time I used it. It seems like Charon is still the best bet for now, though I do wish it were easier to integrate with the rest of the Plan 9 environment. There's just no good answer right now. Russ