From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] TODO lists for Plan 9 From: Kenji Okamoto Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:03:46 +0900 In-Reply-To: <40EAA63B.7090405@anvil.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: b7b3fb86-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Why can't plan9 score it's own drugs:-) > Seriously: have you seen > http://grass.itc.it/grass5/source/REQUIREMENTS.html > ? It's non-trivial. Because I expanded the grass4.1 for other planets by myself. Anyway, I'll check the 5 version, thanks. > > 3) PostgreSQL for Plan 9 > I think you need shared memory, and other such weirdness. Presotto said we have it. > > 4) USB strage device for Nikon CoolPix 3200 >=20 > Is this generic USB mass-storage? > I know my Fuji works fine with an out-of-the-box linux USB mass-storage= =20 > setup, > which is enough for me: I lose the EXIF stuff, though, > so some day (not soon!) I will just bite the bullet and start porting=20 > that stuff (yuk), > unless someone else does it first. > (That would also mean I could connect my MP3 player!) I expect someone do it soon.=E2=98=BA > > 5) USB interface for HP scanner (PSC2550 etc) >=20 > I don't know anything about these beasts: there is SANE though:-~. No, I have dilemma because I want to do it for a new GUI system.=E2=98=BA SANE is not for Plan 9 concept, I think. All the programs using some special RPC protocol should be rewritten by user level file server for Plan 9. Fortunately or unfortunately we have philosophy, not by myself but by the= designers of Plan 9, which makes us not so easy to do something. However, if ther= e is no such philosophy in Plan 9 who loves her? Kenji .