From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] software quality and popularity In-Reply-To: <00f701c0e2fb$449e2f20$e8b7c6d4@SOMA> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:12:27 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a567808c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 22 May 2001, Boyd Roberts wrote: > From: "Richard Uhtenwoldt" > > ... 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