Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC

["Iruata Souza" <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>]

On Jan 23, 2008 7:35 AM,  <pavlovetsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> We can not grip the system tightly and prescribe particular
> application and use of it; instead, we must allow people to use it for
> their own purposes. The more general the system, the better, and this
> is the UNIX principle. If someone wants to build an environment he
> feels comfortable with, but still, not leaving the splendid grounds of
> Plan9 - great! Doesn´t it? This is customisation.

you should search the archives and read code like rio and see what do
people find of customisation in Plan 9.

> Personally, I would be happy as a child to see, say, web browser built
> using native environment and fully copliant. It never will be, though,
> for the simple reason - to be fully comliant, web browser must render
> flash content and Java Script as a minimum, but there are also many
> other web technologies, which are accessible through special,
> proprietary plugins.

flash doesn't have anything to do with compliance. nor does javascript.
speaking of the web, you should be compliant with what you choose to implement.
if you only implement html and you're compliant with w3c, you are compliant.

> From the purist point of view it is bad, because system looses its original
> integrity, many flavours evolve and distasteful cruft appears.
s/purist/sane

> But, in the end, this is evolution. This is the only way to survive.
Plan 9 is older than the mainstream systems you are talking about.

> The more people will use Plan9 the better, even if they do it in not
> so elegant way.
s/Plan 9/Microsoft Windows

> It is senseless and impossible to reinvent every single weel. People
> must port things, it will strengthen the system.
>
and why written elegant new code would not?

iru