Re: [9fans] A newbie question...

["Filipp Andronov" <filipp.andronov@gmail.com>]

Hmmm, my question was not about new ideological war "GNU vs Plan9". ))
I think that my bad English does not allow me to ask my question in
correct form, so i will show some sample :)

For example, in Linux i have some big application.
This application using autotools, so if a want to port it, for example
on different OS (of course if this OS has autotools) or hardware all i
need is go throw sources and put something like:
#ifdef RUN_IN_CYGWIN
 // some specific code
#endif
After that i need to add extra tests in configure and autotools will
do all magic for me :)
The main trouble is that all sources has really many pieces of #ifdef
code, so it could be very painful to drop out "portability in GNU
way".  But it's ok, until that is a only way.

Ok, for me "porting" to plan9 looks like:
1. Drop out autotools from project
2. Replace all OS specific code to Plan9 equivalent
3. Replace all libs to it's equivalent for plan9
4. and so on

Main trouble in 1 step. Because after that i couldn't post in project
mail list, "Hey gays, i have create Plan9 port of your application,
please check it out and put in CVS trunk". If i "port" some
application in that way, that mean that I've start new one, "from
scratch" and just copy & paste some code from original project :((

I hope that i have logical mistakes in my example, and you show me
that, because if not it could be very sad  :))



2008/2/3, Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:30:38 -0000, Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>  An alternative interpretation is that the facts are skewed by the Bell
> >>  Labs reality distortion field.  The syllogism goes something like this:
> >>
> >>  All things not made at Bell Labs are bad
> >>  GNU is not made at Bell Labs
> >>  Therefore, GNU is bad
> >>
> >
> > If you think about what the letters of GNU stand for, you might
> > appreciate
> > that the forms are in mutual opposition.  They provide completely
> > different
> > approaches to software.  "Good" and "Bad" are value judgments.  If
> > you think GNU is the right way to build things, Plan 9 is probably not
> > for you, and vice versa.
> >
> > -rob
>
> Is that "the" Rob Pike? "The R?"
>
> If so, please accept me humble reverence, sire! Hallowed be thy practice
> (of programming)!
>
> P. S. Down here in my country, Iran, we have this tradition of inventing
> sacred things out of thin air. A considerable proportion of "the divine
> and the sacred" spilled all over the globe began with that frailty of ours
> :-D
>
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