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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Start of Tcl Port to Plan 9
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Date: Fri,  4 Apr 2003 19:07:03 -0700
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Charles Forsyth wrote:

> i think i see:  to maintain a distributed system, it's important to centralise it.


I don't get that comment. The 'ports' collection for freebsd is just a
tree of makefiles, with multiple pointers in each thing to URLs to get
source and compile it. The source is distributed world-wide.

Something like this for plan9 would be very useful, but could be done far
better.

I think that's what andrey is talking about.

ron