9fans - fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: fernanbolando@mailc.net, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Good enough approximation for ape/pcc
Date: Sat,  8 Apr 2006 00:24:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f61eb581a846e947380a3c86c89c383c@swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1d5d51400604072118t285ca315w5531a5a251676948@mail.gmail.com>

> New codes should be written in p9p or plan9 native, But for other poeples
> project they should be the one to decide I guess.As I understand it
> this was the main reason ape was created
>
> How do you guys handle this type of situation?

They don't.  They just like to talk.

APE is still used for porting large software packages to Plan 9,
like TeX, Python, and Ghostscript, just to name a few.  But the
only real way to find out whether something will compile with
APE is to try it.

Russ



  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-08  5:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-07 18:13 Fernan Bolando
2006-04-07 19:43 ` Russ Cox
2006-04-07 19:01   ` Fernan Bolando
2006-04-07 19:17     ` uriel
2006-04-07 19:57       ` David Leimbach
2006-04-07 21:52         ` Russ Cox
2006-04-07 21:07           ` David Leimbach
2006-04-08 22:39           ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-04-08 23:50             ` quanstro
2006-04-09  0:05               ` Russ Cox
2006-04-09  5:55                 ` Scott Schwartz
2006-04-09 16:56                   ` Russ Cox
2006-04-09 21:57                     ` Scott Schwartz
2006-04-09 23:04                       ` Russ Cox
2006-04-10  2:49                         ` Scott Schwartz
2006-04-10  4:19                           ` Russ Cox
2006-04-10  4:03                             ` lucio
2006-04-10  8:37                               ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-10 14:42                                 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-04-10 11:11                               ` quanstro
2006-04-10 11:34                                 ` Brantley Coile
2006-04-10 14:09                                   ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-10 14:49                                     ` Paul Lalonde
2006-04-10 15:26                                       ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-04-10 22:07                                   ` Andrew Simmons
2006-04-10 23:04                                     ` Andy Newman
2006-04-10 23:18                                       ` David Leimbach
2006-04-10 23:51                                         ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-04-11  0:07                                           ` David Leimbach
     [not found]                                             ` <3e1162e60604101707v6214a809h516a223bf5d14a06@mail.gmail.co m>
2006-04-11  1:26                                               ` Andrew Simmons
2006-04-11  2:37                                                 ` quanstro
2006-04-11  4:20                                                   ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-11  5:40                                                     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-04-11  8:18                                                       ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-11  8:56                                                         ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-11  9:00                                                           ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-11  8:17                                                 ` Lluís Batlle
2006-04-11 21:30                                                 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-04-11 22:37                                                   ` Russ Cox
2006-04-11 22:05                                                     ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-04-11 21:25                                             ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-04-10  9:57                             ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-09 23:32                       ` geoff
2006-04-07 20:10     ` Russ Cox
     [not found]     ` <ba5b34e5051e1f0238a2df3f641d4598@cat-v.org>
2006-04-08  4:18       ` Fernan Bolando
2006-04-08  5:24         ` Russ Cox [this message]
2006-04-08  7:28           ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-08 16:18             ` Rob Pike
2006-04-08 16:42               ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-09 23:04 erik quanstrom
2006-04-10 23:51 erik quanstrom
2006-04-10 23:53 erik quanstrom
2006-04-11  0:37 erik quanstrom
2006-04-11  0:40 erik quanstrom
2006-04-11 10:18 Andrew Simmons
2006-04-11 10:55 ` Brantley Coile
2006-04-11 11:25 ` quanstro
2006-04-11 12:58 Russ Cox
2006-04-12  0:50 erik quanstrom
2006-04-12  1:09 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-12 11:18 ` Aharon Robbins
2006-04-12 11:31   ` R
2006-04-12 14:01   ` Russ Cox
2006-04-12 13:44     ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-12 14:50       ` Brantley Coile
2006-04-12  1:15 erik quanstrom
2006-04-12  1:23 ` Charles Forsyth

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=f61eb581a846e947380a3c86c89c383c@swtch.com \
    --to=rsc@swtch.com \
    --cc=9fans@cse.psu.edu \
    --cc=fernanbolando@mailc.net \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).