Re: [9front] Greetings! (and few questions)

[Kyle Nusbaum <kylejnusbaum@gmail.com>]

For anyone interested in duit, I forked it a while back to get it
working on 9front:
https://github.com/knusbaum/duit

I don't remember what all changes I made, but IIRC they weren't too major.
> I recall p9p devdraw always had the window top left corner be (0,0), which caused quite a few assumptions in duit
That was one thing I "fixed".
I ended up having an IRC client and some other small programs working with it.

Libdraw is also usable with Go if you care to draw with primitives.


On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:45 AM <fulton@fulton.software> wrote:
>
> On your last question, any thing that file(1) returns as a `* plan 9 executable` should run as long as the arch is compatable with your kernel. Go (and plan9's linker) ouputs staticly linked executable's so it should be able to run on any plan9/9front machine.
>
> - Fulton
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bogunix M <bogunix@gmail.com>
> To: 9front@9front.org
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 22:43:34 -0800
> Subject: [9front] Greetings! (and few questions)
> Good day!
>
> I read the <9front dash1 manual> and fully understood the point <0.1.3
> - Plan 9 is not for you>.
>
> Still, I was wondering if you could help me with a little advice(s).
> In particular, while playing with 9front I found myself looking for a
> two-panel file manager and went on a quest to write one in Go.
>
> Now, after having something breathing [1] and achieving
> cross-compilation with Plan9, I discovered that this is not enough.
> Current show-stopper is lack of Plan9 support by the underlying
> library TCELL [2]. Issue is described in some details in [3] and [4]:
>
> "...plan9 does not use escape sequences at all, nor does it use ttys.
> It appears you need to interact directly with libdraw and with the
> events subsystem..."
>
> I am wondering if someone would be interested to contribute time to
> explain the scope and potentially sketch the solution?
>
> Another related question is whether Plan9, 64-bit binaries, compiled
> by Go will work in 9front? The same question is currently unanswered
> on Stackoverflow [5].
>
> Sincerely,
> Bogunix
>
> [1] https://github.com/mushkevych/9ofm
> [2] https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/
> [3] https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/issues/402
> [4] https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/issues/90
> [5] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65194285