From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920704161702l103c33a5q6a7250210db87e8c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:02:46 +0200 From: Uriel To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] AC'97 In-Reply-To: <9ab217670704161325n66b71968uc251ef7f53c0632b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9ab217670704161325n66b71968uc251ef7f53c0632b@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 49a5aeb4-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 4/16/07, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > I just wanted to give a heads up since I know Dave has students working on this > and it seems silly to have duplicated work. It is not silly, it is the Plan 9 way: duplicate as much work as possible, and if you do something, bury it somewhere where nobody could ever find it, god forbid someone could find it useful! If you poke around 9grid.net you will find also references to a working gcc port, and now I heard that there are different people working on ape and non-ape python ports. Honestly, aren't you happy about the amazing transparency and efficiency of this development model? uriel