> An alternative to building a Go 1.4.3 bootstrap environment, is to build a
Go 1.7 bootstrap environment for Plan 9 in a mainstream environment ...

> If you want to build the current Go source from scratch on plan9/386,

you can just do...

The binary I built was specifically for arm (or more accurately, for the raspi), on which I initially spent a chunk of time trying to get 1.4 building; eventually, as suggested here, cross-compiling on my Linux box was how I ended up getting things working. However, that process wasn't really intuitive, and felt a good chunk like wasted time.

I figured having a binary available would save people some hassle; there's no real reason to make everyone cross-compile the binary, especially with as small a target platform as the pi, and for people like myself who weren't immediately aware of exactly what to do, it's more things to figure out for no real reason. Bandwidth is cheap, the binary's small, so I figured having it around would help other people who install plan 9 on their Pi to check it out.

I'm already hosting it myself, but it seems like my link got me spam-filtered. I'm more just wondering where to make it more obvious that it's available, so noobies like myself can just grab it and play instead of having to spin the same wheels I did.

Thanks!

mars