From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: RE: [9fans] GNU Make Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 18:31:38 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9093705e-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Lucio De Re asked: >> Does anyone else here believe that APE is worth enhancing? To which Howard Trickey replied: > No. Well, hardly anyone. > The Plan 9 user community regards APE as a "failure of vision" > not worth pursuing. Is there an alternative? What about supporting ghostscript and spin? Moving off APE to GNU is hardly an option, although it certainly is different. Rewriting a whole lot of useful software because the original authors were not blessed with the holy knowledge of the Plan 9 development environment is also somewhat counterproductive. No, I think your efforts were heroic and deserve to be sustained and even enhanced :-) ++L