From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: Anthony Sorace To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-6--225979718" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:51:52 -0500 References: <8caa71437990033289de6701b565b4a7@9netics.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Contrib indexes Topicbox-Message-UUID: e32c9c2a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-6--225979718 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lyndon said: > You can also grab /n/sources/contrib/lyndon/contribindex which > generates a pretty-printed listing of people's contrib/*/INDEX files. There's been several of these. Note that I run one to update the contrib index on the wiki more or less daily. That version includes both things from INDEX files and a listing of packages using fgb's contrib program. http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Contrib_index/index.html /n/sources/contrib/anothy/bin/rc/contrindx Lucio said: > What I believe is missing from sources is a simple mechanism to see > if something I'm already somewhat familiar with has been ported > successfully. I think the "resistance" you're encountering is really just people telling you you're mistaken. fgb's contrib (I do wish it didn't share the name with the section of sources) isn't perfect by any means, but it does an excellent job of solving the problem of "where do i find what's been ported". So do the INDEX files. Those are currently extant. I can't find any way what you're proposing would solve that better. Anthony --Apple-Mail-6--225979718 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkuUA9gACgkQyrb52b5lrs527gCfbKMlSs0FHLAL8JN40G8zZK6A cUEAn0d/nzKO6KejzFvTGHmpfzyfMYv8 =7nn7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-6--225979718--