Re: [9fans] Why didn't anyone tell me about the new slogan?

[Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>]

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9fans.net doesn't host the content (all are on github.com), but you can get
Go packages through (i.e. redirected through) 9fans.net. Go "get" command
allows this, so that the attribution on package imports can be something
other than where it is hosted.

so, you can:

$ go get 9fans.net/go

which will actually get the content from github.com/9fans/go repository,
but programs using its packages will import them with a 9fans.net import
path:

import (
"9fans.net/go/plan9"
"9fans.net/go/plan9/client"
)

btw, the above repository (which is the work of Russ and Rob) includes a
pdp1 emulator, along with the original spacewar game! it has a 9P
implementation and packages for talking with p9p services like draw, acme
and plumb.

lastly, there's no inside to the joke about change in slogan; did you look
at the twitter link that Anthony sent at the start of this thread?


On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:33 AM <cigar562hfsp952fans@icebubble.org> wrote:

> Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > i think one of the reasons 'go get' handles redirects is to deal with
> cases
> > when a repo changes location (like when a lot of stuff had to move from
> > code.google.com to github.com or bitbucket.org recently). even if the
> > generic repo site (e.g. 9fans.net) is maintained by a group of people ,
> > there will be times when that site is down.
>
> Am I to infer from this that 9fans.net hosts a development repo for go,
> as well as the mailing list?  Still, what's this about a new slogan?  Or
> is having a new slogan just an "inside" joke that went over my head?
>
>

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