From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 3921 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2021 21:01:49 -0000 Received: from 4ess.inri.net (216.126.196.42) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 30 Dec 2021 21:01:49 -0000 Received: from mimir.eigenstate.org ([206.124.132.107]) by 4ess; Thu Dec 30 15:53:30 -0500 2021 Received: from stockyard (ue.tmodns.net [172.58.235.88]) by mimir.eigenstate.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 5174e3d0 (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256:NO) for <9front@9front.org>; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 12:46:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <97DF41B950F6AF2E0230F12B1DDEC1BB@eigenstate.org> To: 9front@9front.org Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 15:45:56 -0500 From: ori@eigenstate.org In-Reply-To: <878rw2hr56.fsf@turtle-trading.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: transactional content-driven strategy proxy Subject: Re: [9front] New user Reply-To: 9front@9front.org Precedence: bulk Quoth Benjamin Riefenstahl : > Hi everybody. > > I am having some fun with 9front lately, just looking at what it does in > a VM and trying to wrap my head around concepts. > > Besides trying out the native stuff, I have started a personal project > to get Tcl to run. This is uncovering bugs in Tcl as well as in > 9front's APE library. Are you interested in patches for APE? I notice > that voices on the net discourage porting packages to Plan 9 and that > "This UNIX compatibility [meaning APE] is old and quite unmaintained" > (https://pspodcasting.net/dan/blog/2019/plan9_desktop.html). > > Let me know, and I can provide patches to individual problems when I > have them. It's old and not particularly loved, but it's only unmaintained if nobody sends patches to maintain it.