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.

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