Re: [9front] inquery: plans for phasing out cpu, rx and import

[stanley lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:

>it's a good point. perhaps remove the files and put somewhere in the
>fqa the hg command that will revert this again?
>then there's a documented way for people to access an old plan9
>machine, but no code to confuse people who download 9front and
>directly just read the code.

So we keep things like ftp and nfs clients in the base system but remove the ability to talk to Plan 9?

Disabling the listeners on 9front is obvious, and since Plan 9 is dead, maintenance is not really needed, but why remove it, exactly? Just to feel "clean"?

We still keep a lot of other dirty stuff, specifically so we can talk to other outmoded servers that are not even Plan 9. Maybe Plan 9 systems are so rare it doesn't matter, but this policy seems quite randomly applied.

sl