> I only strongly suggest that you put the contrib gui at the heart of > what the user sees.
Agreed wholeheartedly. Thing is, It's autoconf that needs careful redesign: even though contrib/replica is not as comprehensive as a revision control even when backed by venti, it is unmatched for Plan 9 purposes. But that leaves one still at the mercy of autoconf and it seems to me that the trigger for change ought to come from Plan 9. And in case I haven't yet made it clear, I don't have a good enough picture in my head to suggest a replacement. In fact, Steve Simon and fgb both have done great work to help there, but I feel the real answer is still at large. And if anyone should find this bait irresistible, keep in mind that the final product needs to be portable across at least a few OS platforms as well as hardware architectures and that it should probably be targetting the Plan 9 toolchain rather than GCC (G++ is a problem, of course, but Go may help there as at least with the NetBSD packages, the number of C++ offerings is limited.). ++L
