Re: [9fans] Plan ? (was: native install)

[Gabriel Diaz Lopez de la Llave <gdiaz@rejaa.com>]

hello

This way (dot-it-your-self-way) we will "only" have one-man projects. . .

slds.

gabi

El 30/03/2010, a las 12:19, hugo rivera escribió:

> I agree with Steve.
> I like the community approach to this matter: if plan9 doesn't have
> what you need, do it yourself; if you do something that might be
> useful for others share it and see what happens.
> Being a newbie myself I find very hard to write my own utilities, but
> that's a good way to learn ;-)
> 
> 
> 2010/3/30 Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>:
>>> No one's willing to spearhead a "General Purpose 9" experiment, and no
>>> one's interested in collaborating on and contributing to such a project?
>>> 
>>> "If you want [general purpose], you know where to get it." seems to
>>> be the period that ends all such discussion.
>> 
>> I wouldn't quite agree, the discussions usually end one of three ways:
>> 
>> - somone wants somthing like gnome, and are encouraged to run linux.
>> 
>> - somone wants "the community" to port smthing like gnome and noone is
>>  interested so they get bored and go away.
>> 
>> - somone wants to write some code to solve a problem they have with plan9
>>  and the just get on with it and tell the list when its done.
>> 
>> An example:
>> 
>> I need SVN support at work, cinap has wrapped up his linuxemu with the snv
>> client and the apropriate shared libraries (thanks cinap). This allows me to
>> continue using plan9 (as I do every day, all day).
>> 
>> In parallel I now have written a webdav client which I hope will become
>> a DeltaV/SVN client for plan9. I feel its worth writing as I think it is
>> interesting to try and fit the plan9 file model to SVN's version control model.
>> 
>> I wanted it, I got on with it and wrote it.
>> 
>>> I can't help but wonder: where's the crux of the inertia?
>> 
>> An interesting question. If you can garner enthusism from the list
>> perhaps you can be "the one" to spearhead a new burst of enthusism?
>> 
>> -Steve
>> 
>> 
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> Hugo
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