Re: [9fans] abaco @ plan9port [WAS: Hi and, plan9-native abaco sources?]

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

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:36 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> > I think this is a bad idea, what if you want to use an alternate
>  > webfs (on a different NIC), or an non-standard cookies file? do you
>  > want to wait whilst webcookies rescans it databse at startup and
>  > webfs rescans its cache (work in progress)?
>  >
>  > If we continue this way why not put the code for webfs and and webcookies
>  > in abaco, and why not include upas and nntpfs too; I guess you can see where
>  > this is leading...
>  >
>  > I think fgb's simple shell script is an elegant solution, if this is what
>  > you want (sh to rc translation not withstanding) but keeping webfs and webcookies
>  > as long lived external servers has significant benefits - it is The plan9 way™
>  > after all.
>
>  standard slippery slope argument.
>
>  i think that abaco (by inheratance from webfs) may confuse
>  elegance with unfriendliness.  for example, why do i have
>  to type "http://"?  why can't i type "g $query" to google
>  something?  why doesn't esc in the tag highlight like acme?
>
>  abaco is great stuff.  this is why i took the time to add a few
>  of these things to my version.  they might not be the height
>  of elegance.  they may not be added in the right place.  perhaps
>  webfs should do this.  but usability is important, too.
>

have you sent your patches to fgb?

iru