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From: Bogunix M <bogunix@gmail.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: [9front] Greetings! (and few questions)
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 22:43:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL7Qv_NifU7Nzh9oOK=DtFr2nZm-tEUnnuE1xcvhf8bQjzRteg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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

             reply	other threads:[~2020-12-10  6:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-10  6:43 Bogunix M [this message]
2020-12-10  7:19 ` Sean Hinchee
2020-12-10  7:33   ` Sean Hinchee
2020-12-10 11:05   ` Stuart Morrow
2020-12-10 14:18   ` telephil9
2020-12-10 15:00     ` Jacob Moody
2020-12-11 19:32       ` Daniel Moch
2020-12-13  7:09         ` Bogunix M
2020-12-13  7:36           ` Kurt H Maier
2020-12-10 16:45 ` fulton
2020-12-11 15:25   ` Kyle Nusbaum

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