Re: [9fans] request for more GSoC project suggestions

["Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>]

2009/3/25 Federico G. Benavento <benavento@gmail.com>:
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> As for applications for Plan 9, the ones we need (read to cope with
> the rest of the world) are too big for a soc project, so even if I don't
> like gcc, a port would help on this matter.

Yes and no. As long as there are reasonable expectations for the
projects, there is no reason an application or application suite
cannot be duplicated or ported. GSoC isn't entirely about completing a
project: the scope of a project may just be laying groundwork or a
foundation for a later project which involves the porting. I think a
lot of your sentiment about the GSoC program is a bit short sighted
(based on emails in 2 threads now).

> right now, one can get by running old linux binaries and linuxemu+
> equis, so improving linuxemu is also a project I'm interested.
>
> just my opinion

Linux emulation can always use work everywhere, especially since those
assholes keep changing it every chance they get. More syscalls for
more glibc versions = good. FreeBSD's linux compat works great these
days (so it may not be a half bad place to start looking for
improvements, though, admittedly, I haven't used linuxemu on Plan 9)

--dho