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Subject: Re: [9fans] Closed nix development is an insult
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> [...] Nix is
> not a personal project. It's listed right there on the lsub page

one thing seems to be missed is that nix is the name for at least
two independent projects.

a brief history.  this is the best of my understanding.  please
correct me if i haven't credited folks properly.  i am sure there
are bits i don't know.

at one time there was unified open development on google code
(or whatever site it was).  this was based on the 9k work.
some of the participants felt that this wasn't working out
due to differences in direction, and the fact that hg was a pain.
so this split into a project called NxM and nix, which was
hosted at lsub using a patch-like process.  but lsub was interested
in some disruptive changes, and there was a conflicting desire for
a kernel to replace the 386 kernel.  so i moved this 386-replacement
kernel into 9atom.  we run exactly this code every day on ~32 machines.

9atom accepts patches (see /n/atom/plan9/rc/bin/apatch), there
is a mailing list for changes (sources@9atom.org) or if you prefer
/n/atom/patch.

> > there is no private nix development going on
>
> Let's quote something from a recent nix paper:
>
>   "We are grateful to Charles Forsyth for his advice regarding this
>   work, and to the new Plan 9 secret society."
>
> Ahem.

*WOOSH*.

this is an obvious joke.  see e.g. http://9fans.net/archive/2006/06/18

either that or you're just trolling.

- erik