Re: [9fans] Is there a reason for the existence of 9atom?

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

On Mon Feb 14 02:01:04 EST 2011, e.gorodinsky@gmail.com wrote:

> Been there, done that.  Not a line of text saying why 9atom appeared
> nor why the changes are not merged back into plan9.

there was at least one person i told that a certain bit of
atom hardware "works great," only to find out that it did
not work great with the distribution iso.  i created 9atom
as a stopgap but it has continued to be useful since the
standard distribution doesn't support ken's file server and
not everything has been merged back in.  it will be great
to get everything merged back in at some point.

i see its ongoing utility for me as a way to get some things
i'm working on packaged up so people can use them.  for example,
one big change in 9atom is unicode 6.0 support.  (that is,
32-bit runes.)  i've used it to do a bit with cuniform.

i hope 9atom doesn't offend anyone.  gripe at me off
like if you want to.

i hope to get the cannonical sources online in the near
future.

- erik