don't get me wrong, I don't want gcc, but my employer requires it, and I would rather develop on plan even if I cannot develop for plan9.

I do this at present, my main machine is a pi2, and my gcc, Firefox, and outlook co-processor is a windows laptop. it works, but I resent carting a laptop around.

-Steve




> On 26 Jul 2015, at 18:33, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> 
> just speaking for myself, I found the fact that plan 9 was a self contained thing to be a must have.  i don't consider the gcc toolchain to be a feature. 
> 
> if "fast compilation" is a feature over plan 9, I'd like to see some numbers.
> 
> - erik
> On Jul 25, 2015 3:15 PM, Axel Belinfante <axel.belinfante@utwente.nl> wrote:
> I couldn’t resist looking, and found in http://www.osnews.com/comments/28699
> 
> 	"Harvey is an effort to get the Plan 9 code working with gcc and clang”.
> 
> So, in a way it seems to be a port of Plan 9.
> 
> More details, including the feature list below, are at http://harvey-os.org
> 	
> 	Features
> 
> 	• AMD 64 bit
> 	• Modern, simplified syscall system
> 	• GCC toolchain means you can use gdb(!)
> 	• Compile in Linux or OSX using Harvey's headers and libs, no need to change anything else
> 	• Fast compilation of the whole system
> 	• All Plan9 userland apps available
> 	• Plans to add X11 with rio-like multiplexing, tty driver, new fileserver, native toolchain and more
> 
> I’m intrigued by the “compile … using Harvey's headers and libs, no need to change anything else” —
> I guess that means that it will be easy to “port” stuff to Harvey?
> 
> The team list contains names well-known on this list...
> 
> I must say, it looks quite interesting, worth checking out.
> 
> Axel.
> 
> On 25 Jul 2015, at 17:58, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> No clue. I'm guessing it's heavily inspired by Plan 9.
> 
> On July 25, 2015 3:34:13 AM CDT, "steve@quintile.net" <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> not sure what Harvey is... is it just plan9 ported to build on gcc?
> 
> if so does gcc run under Harvey?
> 
> does gcc run under plan9 now?
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 25 Jul 2015, at 01:43, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> https://medium.com/this-is-not-a-monad-tutorial/harvey-an-operating-system-with-plan-9-s-shadow-3081414e5f0b
> 
> I'm not affiliated with this whatsoever; I just saw it on Reddit and found it interesting.
> 
> I found this part particularly neat:
> 
> > We are working in ANSI POSIX environment to have most of well known tools and programs that programmers or end users expects to have in a modern operating system. Things that for traditional Plan 9 would be very difficult to have.
> 
> -- 
> Sent from my Nexus 5 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
> 
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> Sent from my Nexus 5 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>