Re: [9fans] Foundation new releases question

["Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Sat, Apr 3, 2021, at 4:47 PM, Keith Gibbs wrote:
> It's almost as if the accusations that 9front in some way undermines the core
> philosophies of Plan 9 are not motivated by facts, 

There was a lot of grumpiness around when that accusation got started.


> On 21/04/03 05:39PM, hiro wrote:
> > btw everybody, remember how labs people added a syscall just for go?
> > and how that breaks compatibility for everybody?
> > 9front didn't like it. but I guess we prefer to stay as compatible as
> > feasible in addition to trying to prevent scenarios like these forced
> > upon us (by labs, ironic eh?)

Yep. I might be able to understand that change, but less so the later breaking change to 9p auth. There was no reason for it at all; p9any already allows different cyphers. Thankfully, it was easy to integrate without breaking dpi9k, but after all the care we'd taken to preserve 9p, I found it demoralizing. (I have this great idea for integrating file move into 9p, but "no, we do not break 9p!") And I got the impression that the 9p change was requested by the very people who accused 9front the most, but I wasn't really paying attention by then so I might very well be wrong about that.

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