From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: Fco.J.Ballesteros To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Start of Tcl Port to Plan 9 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-aigsisxyhltgzrmvoajyswyvru" Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 17:42:10 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8a0f6302-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-aigsisxyhltgzrmvoajyswyvru Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We are already doing this. Sources was setup for that purpose. I was referring to doing the same for ongoing efforts not yet ready for sources. For other stuff, I'm pretty sure ported stuff can get into sources if found useful. just to clarify. --upas-aigsisxyhltgzrmvoajyswyvru Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by aquamar; Fri Apr 4 17:36:24 MDT 2003 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.16.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 6EDA319B93; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:36:08 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca [136.159.7.68]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id CE33419B8E for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:35:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h34FZvY3024117 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 08:35:57 -0700 Received: from localhost (mirtchov@localhost) by fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id h34FZv6S024113 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 08:35:57 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca: mirtchov owned process doing -bs From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Start of Tcl Port to Plan 9 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 08:35:57 -0700 (MST) On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Fco.J.Ballesteros wrote: > It's just so nice to mount software distributions intead of downloading > them from the web :-), diffs, pulls, etc. etc. > imagine how much better this could be than the *BSD ports collections! all we need is someone with a dedicated file server to store all the 9ports at (a-la sources.cs.bell-labs).. then updating local ports (cvsup in BSD's language) is as trivial as doing a replica/pull or a mk install after mounting the server... i've been in 'but this is so much easier in plan9' mode for the past few months... andrey ps: i'm pretty sure even a dsl connection can handle the barrage of plan9 users doing a replica/pull every night on all the plan9 ports :) --upas-aigsisxyhltgzrmvoajyswyvru--