Re: [9fans] hg and golang

[Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <vu3rdd@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:58 AM, David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I searched and didn't find a canonical way to install mercurial and
>> golang on plan9. Can someone point to me some instructions? I see from
>> the golang build dashboard[1] that golang on plan9 is reasonably
>> healthy.
>
> As Skip said, Python 2.7.6 and Mercurial 2.8.2 are available
> as a binary package on http://www.9legacy.org/download.html.
>
> If you want to compile from sources, you will need to
> get the APE changes from Jeff Sickel. If you are running
> Plan 9 from Bell Labs, you can apply the following patch:
>
> http://www.9legacy.org/9legacy/patch/ape-jas.diff
>
> Here is an excerpt from my notes to compile Python on Plan 9:

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Hello David,

That worked perfectly! Thanks. I compiled python from sources. I now
have a working Python and Mercurial installation. Now, on to compiling
Go.

Thank you again, to everyone.
--
  Ramakrishnan