From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 06:01:10 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git Topicbox-Message-UUID: 28444b16-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > perhaps more substantially, i created a github.com/9fans organization. > right now it's just plan9port, and i intended to add drawterm. if anyone > else wants to host plan9-related things there, i'm happy to add more owners. Thank you, Russ. I looked briefly at Git to estimate the complexity of porting it to Plan 9 (subsequent to Go's announcement) and found in its INSTALL file much to be daunted by, mostly references to shell and perl scripting and Posix compatibility. That said, a port of Git to Windows has been completed and Jeff Sickel announced that porting Git to Plan 9 should not be too difficult, so I look forward to efforts in this direction and plead here to assist with such, if at all possible. You may well be the best authority to answer the question that came immediately to mind: Give the ongoing port of Go to Go and the tools being used for the translation, would a similar approach be worth applying to the Git sources, even if only to measure the cost of moving Go, Git and Plan 9 to a new development infrastructure, one that is sorely missing? Lucio. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email has been scanned by the MxScan Email Security System. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------