[9front] 9front Programmer's Manual

[Humm <hummsmith42@gmail.com>]

(Just for fun, I played around a little with the manual, changing it 
to a “9front Programmer’s Manual” (with actually functioning build 
system).  I haven’t changed the contents of the papers and didn’t do 
much with the man pages.  Files describing the changes and a tarball 
with the changed files are at /n/disk/humm/docs .)

I would like to know/discuss the future of the Plan 9 Programmer’s 
Manual in 9front.  Currently, besides changed man pages and the 
addition of the nupas paper, it still is the same as 4E’s manual.  As 
far as I know, the only versions of it in print are sl’s rainbow books 
(at which I haven’t looked yet).

What I think might be okay options are (1) deleting everything having 
to do with putting the papers and manual pages together to a big 
Programmer’s Manual for print, (2) replacing that mechanism by a new 
one for just the man pages (akin to the rainbow books, if I actually 
understand what’s in them), and (3) fixing it up for a two-volume 
9front Programmer’s Manual.  Additionally, I imagine papers could be 
updated for 9front (as if someone would actually do that).

So, what’s the situation?  Are there any plans other than continuing 
to let it rot?

-- 
Humm