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Subject: Re: [9fans] Good enough approximation for ape/pcc
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Sat,  8 Apr 2006 00:24:55 -0500
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> 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