From: andrey mirtchovski <aam396@mail.usask.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] software quality and popularity
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:12:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.10.10105221508390.33042-100000@irixbum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00f701c0e2fb$449e2f20$e8b7c6d4@SOMA>
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Boyd Roberts wrote:
> From: "Richard Uhtenwoldt" <ru@river.org>
> > ... code written for Unix is difficult to port to Plan 9
>
> it's not that hard, but it depends on what sort of unix braindamage
> you've got to port. i did a very rough port of 10k lines of unix
> code to plan 9 in two days. of course, sam made the task a lot
> easier and the code was pretty modular and ran on a variety of
> unix varients -- without 'configure'!
i have both good and bad experiences in trying to get unix stuff running on
p9... in my opinion it all depends on how clean and well written the unix
code is...
with the plethora of software freely available for linux/*bsd these days, if
A does not want to compile and looks like too much work i simply fetch B and
give it a try.. in most cases the differences in the actual product are
minimal..
andrey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-22 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-26 23:46 [9fans] Awk or Limbo ? geoff.9fans
2001-05-22 19:28 ` [9fans] software quality and popularity Richard Uhtenwoldt
2001-05-22 20:10 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-05-22 22:12 ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2001-05-22 22:34 ` William Staniewicz
2001-05-23 8:24 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-05-22 20:31 Russ Cox
2001-05-22 21:28 ` Dan Cross
2001-05-22 22:39 Eric Grosse
2001-05-22 23:26 jmk
2001-05-23 14:57 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-05-23 0:58 okamoto
2001-05-23 1:01 rob pike
2001-05-23 1:15 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-05-23 14:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-05-23 1:27 okamoto
2001-05-23 6:47 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-05-23 15:38 Russ Cox
2001-05-23 15:39 jmk
2001-05-24 8:46 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-05-24 14:34 ` David Lukes
2001-05-23 18:45 David Gordon Hogan
2001-05-24 8:46 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-05-24 12:01 jmk
2001-05-24 14:14 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-05-24 15:31 ` David Lukes
2001-05-24 14:42 jmk
2001-05-24 16:08 ` Dan Cross
2001-05-25 0:48 okamoto
2001-05-25 8:21 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-05-25 2:09 okamoto
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