Re: [9fans] Go/Inferno toolchain (Was: comment and newline in

[Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 4:26 AM,  <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
>>> but I can dig
>>> them up, clean them up, and share them,
>>
>> My particular concern is to encourage convergence towards a single
>> source distribution rather than divergence as seems to have been the
>> case so far with Plan 9 native, Inferno, p9p and now Go. What I have
>> chosen to do, ill-advised as it may be, is to set up a mercurial
>> repository to re-distribute hacked Go sources that mostly contain
>> harmless changes that make it possible to compile the Go sources and
>> specifically the development toolchain with the Plan 9 toolchain.  I'm
>> presently trying to bring the work I did last year into this
>> repository and at the same time keep track of the Go release.
>>
>
> I've had a composite repo of previous attempts (well, Sape's previous
> attempt) at doing this (for some time) at:
> http://code.google.com/p/go-plan9/
>
> I'm happy to add anyone to the committer/admin list, although my
> preference is to keep the main branch in sync with go and have folks
> attempts at conversion in sub-branches.  You are of course welcome to
> maintain your own repo with your own effort, I just figured if
> everyone had a common place to see what approaches people were using
> we might get there faster....
>
>       -eric

Is the porting process active?

-rob