Re: [9fans] Plan9 Sources Repository

[cam@9.SQUiSH.org]

> Yet: is there a source control system behind it?
> Would it be possible to check out directly from there?

for the bell-labs distribution, the filesystem itself keeps
a daily record of the source tree.  you can access it with
9fs sourcesdump and the daily state of sources will be
in /n/sourcesdump.

> If there is none, could it be that this contributes to the lack of
> popularity

9front and 9legacy both use mercurial as their revision
control systems.  9legacy keeps a mirror of the bell-labs
distribution in mercurial as well if that suits your needs.

9front's repo:

http://code.google.com/p/plan9front

9legacy's various repositories and mirrors:

https://hg.9grid.fr/

> and to the fragmentation of Plan9 (9front, 9atom, 9legacy,
> PlanB, other plans...)?

the reason for the different distributions is really no
different than the motivation for the different bsd or
linux distributions:  they each have their own goals
and purpose.