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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Python/Mercurial error
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On Apr 3, 2014, at 12:58 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu Apr  3 01:51:59 EDT 2014, 0intro@gmail.com wrote:
>>> the script itself reminds me of gcc fixincludes.
>>
>> This is probably not ideal, but the alternative would be
>> to split libc.h in three parts: libc.h, fmt.h and utf.h
>> and only include libc.h in Go (because Go has his own
>> variants of libfmt and libutf).
>
> why is the alternative to modify plan 9, and why can't they
> live with the system fmt/rune routines?

Go will likely require its own libraries for everything in the
near future.  The Plan 9 variants will have to accept that
as it is just too time consuming to try and keep the headers
clean and still use the original Plan 9 libraries that started
the core Go implementation.

- jas