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From: kokamoto@hera.eonet.ne.jp
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] move zlib source from ghostscript to ape/lib/z and update to latest zlib
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 20:05:29 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33BA722BBB374A6495660029377F354F@hera.eonet.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAFSF3XNHKSDka2O62VeSN_wrvYEYskNobURBGMYP-aR-nmv+cw@mail.gmail.com

I like the (1) way.
To follow every updated external library is worse.
This kind of topics should be discussed for individual cases, I think.

Kenji

> in general part of the beauty in plan9 is that some geniuses found
> abstractions that are so much better, that reimplementing the
> functionality the plan9 way is simpler than porting a library even
> once, which saves us 1) the work of porting it even once 2)
> maintaining a mirror image of some external bikeshedding process.
> 
> it's kind of rare that 2) or 1) alone is less work than reimplementing
> everything on plan9.
> 
> doing both 1) and 2) seem completely hopeless for most modern libraries.



             reply	other threads:[~2020-03-03 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-03 11:05 kokamoto [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-03-03  6:36 kokamoto
2020-03-02 23:08 kokamoto
2020-03-03  0:49 ` Steve Simon
2020-03-03  1:01   ` ori
2020-03-03 10:06     ` hiro
2020-03-03 10:08     ` hiro
2020-03-03 10:12       ` hiro
2020-03-03 14:01         ` ori
2020-03-03 13:58       ` ori
2020-03-02  5:15 Lucas Francesco
2020-03-02  8:33 ` [9front] " cinap_lenrek
2020-03-02 14:41   ` ori
2020-03-05 19:17     ` cinap_lenrek
2020-03-08 23:44       ` Lucas Francesco
2020-03-16  3:28         ` ori

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