From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Eric Van Hensbergen Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:16:18 -0500 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] simple venti demo: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0e923c16-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote: > rather than continue to live for the next 20 years with > (say) 20- to 30-year old include file structures and library implementations > that became overly complicated (and badly implemented), a better > approach might be to separate the libraries from the much larger distribution > of plan 9-based commands etc, and make them available in the usual way > as packages to import using the (many different) package managers on Unix-like systems. > 9base? (http://tools.suckless.org/9base) Doesn't stick to just libraries but already has packages on Ubungo anyways. I think it at least cuts the GUI tools which eliminates the xorg-dev requirement which is probably the most onerous. -eric