From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Globus attempt (until new software is available) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 11:37:58 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9ff07f8a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 6 May 2003, C H Forsyth wrote: > lnfs(4) will help you with the names, but it's hard to see > what could help you with the contents of those tar files when you unpack them... > (i don't mean managing to compile them--perhaps APE could cope.) > lnfs would help, but then globus needs GPT (globus packaging toolkit) to unarchive the rest, it would require perl to exist on the system, then GPT would attempt to compile for one of the [gcc|cc] compilers, [32|64] bits and [debug|''] targets. That means gcc needs to be installed _and_ working. The fun part comes when GPT would not display anything it does, except the errors/warnings, which tells you fsck all about what's hapening. Then there is a slight library problem -- you may never be sure which libraries need to be installed. Then there's the X509 ceritficate problems -- you need to ask ANL to sign your certificate. Then there is... Well, I wrote a very inflamatory anti-globus mail about half an hour ago but decided against posting it.. In short -- Globus doesn't have a place in Plan9, for Plan9 stands against anything that Globus is (baroque, bloated, complex, non-KISS)... Porting it to Plan9 would be the least of your problems :) andrey