From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <2002F9BB-6E50-47A0-8809-B01DAB4E2595@corpus-callosum.com> From: Jens Staal Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:55:25 +0100 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] current python & hg support Topicbox-Message-UUID: 630c9606-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2012/2/10 John Floren : > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Jeff Sickel wro= te: >> A quick question for everyone, is there interest in getting a more curre= nt version of hg working for Plan 9 & NIX? =C2=A0If so, given I've spent wa= y too much time in the past getting both working for other platforms, I cou= ld devote a little time to get both prepped for future work. >> >> Python 2.5.1 is stable, but it wouldn't hurt us to be a little closer to= the 2.7.1 release. >> Hg has made significant strides since 1.0.2. >> >> Neither of these updates might help the oddities people are finding whil= e using Hg, but if we're looking forward then keeping current should be add= ressed. >> >> -jas >> > > That would be really great... Ideally, if you update Python, you could > get patches put in to officially support Plan 9. If I remember > correctly, there was at least one Python developer who was interested > in helping with that. > > John > The same is actually also true for the Perl guys. I asked around a bit there just recently when I noticed that the Plan9 install instructions do not work for recent versions (the official Perl sources ship with a script to prep the Perl sources and an mkfile under the plan9/ directory). They seem interested in getting it up to date if anyone is interested. I tried looking at it but did not really figure it out... http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-02/msg00069.htm= l