[9fans] current environment?

[9fans] current environment?

[James A. Robinson]

Anyone here in an environment where they use Plan 9 tools to write code
for other systems?  I'm in a job where I write lots of java, sql, and
perl for running on various solaris machines.  I use the X11 port of sam,
and used to use wily (a partial clone of acme) to write the code on the
machines the stuff needs to compile on.

I've been thinking of setting up a system where I run Plan 9 inside
vmware, using local disk to edit the code. Then rsync the data into
place as needed. But that seems kind of kludgey. Anyone in a similar
position w/re to writing code which won't be running on a Plan 9 box?
What do you do?

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Re: [9fans] current environment?

[William Josephson]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:43:17AM -0800, James A. Robinson wrote:
> Anyone here in an environment where they use Plan 9 tools to write code
> for other systems?  I'm in a job where I write lots of java, sql, and

> place as needed. But that seems kind of kludgey. Anyone in a similar
> position w/re to writing code which won't be running on a Plan 9 box?
> What do you do?

In the past I have used u9fs to copy code over
from a Plan 9 box where I ran acme.  More recently,
I have been using Inferno with the pass-through
filesystem.  I am way too many levels down on the
stack to get things set up the way I want them.

Re: [9fans] current environment?

[Russ Cox]

> I've been thinking of setting up a system where I run Plan 9 inside
> vmware, using local disk to edit the code. Then rsync the data into
> place as needed. But that seems kind of kludgey. Anyone in a similar
> position w/re to writing code which won't be running on a Plan 9 box?
> What do you do?

All the time.  I use Plan 9 inside VMware and u9fs via srvssh.

Re: [9fans] current environment?

[matt]

> Anyone in a similar
> position w/re to writing code which won't be running on a Plan 9 box?
> What do you do?

although I ended up not using it [I use u9fs & FreeBSD] maybe cvs will meet
your needs

ftpfs is also a possibility, I used to use that before I got u9fs working.
It was pretty slow but that was over the internet not the LAN,  grepping a
directory would sometimes prove painful as ALL the files would be downloaded
first, nasty if they are a big, ymmv

There's a document here :
http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:dnlb9WkNt10C:www.acl.lanl.gov/plan9/new
network/fbsd.html+plan9+nfs&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

where they mentioned using a FreeBSD box and u9fs as a gateway to the NFS
shares on the rest of the network

[the original http://www.acl.lanl.gov/plan9/newnetwork/fbsd.html is offline
so maybe it doesn't work so good ;)  ]

Re: [9fans] current environment?

[David Swasey]

I have a linux box on my LAN that holds code for other systems.  I
work in acme, using u9fs+p9any for editing, ssh+make for batch
compiles, and win+ssh for interactive work.  (The SML/NJ compilation
manager recompiles faster when used interactively.)

A nightly cron job does replica/scan && replica/pull to copy changes
from my linux box to my file server so the dump gets a copy of my
source.  This is very handy.

I sometimes have to work with remote machines over a slow link.  I use
unison to propagate changes between my linux box and these machines
and VNC+whatever for editing

-dave

> Anyone in a similar
> position w/re to writing code which won't be running on a Plan 9 box?
> What do you do?