hello This way (dot-it-your-self-way) we will "only" have one-man projects. . .
slds. gabi El 30/03/2010, a las 12:19, hugo rivera escribió: > I agree with Steve. > I like the community approach to this matter: if plan9 doesn't have > what you need, do it yourself; if you do something that might be > useful for others share it and see what happens. > Being a newbie myself I find very hard to write my own utilities, but > that's a good way to learn ;-) > > > 2010/3/30 Steve Simon <st...@quintile.net>: >>> No one's willing to spearhead a "General Purpose 9" experiment, and no >>> one's interested in collaborating on and contributing to such a project? >>> >>> "If you want [general purpose], you know where to get it." seems to >>> be the period that ends all such discussion. >> >> I wouldn't quite agree, the discussions usually end one of three ways: >> >> - somone wants somthing like gnome, and are encouraged to run linux. >> >> - somone wants "the community" to port smthing like gnome and noone is >> interested so they get bored and go away. >> >> - somone wants to write some code to solve a problem they have with plan9 >> and the just get on with it and tell the list when its done. >> >> An example: >> >> I need SVN support at work, cinap has wrapped up his linuxemu with the snv >> client and the apropriate shared libraries (thanks cinap). This allows me to >> continue using plan9 (as I do every day, all day). >> >> In parallel I now have written a webdav client which I hope will become >> a DeltaV/SVN client for plan9. I feel its worth writing as I think it is >> interesting to try and fit the plan9 file model to SVN's version control >> model. >> >> I wanted it, I got on with it and wrote it. >> >>> I can't help but wonder: where's the crux of the inertia? >> >> An interesting question. If you can garner enthusism from the list >> perhaps you can be "the one" to spearhead a new burst of enthusism? >> >> -Steve >> >> > > > > -- > Hugo >
