On Mar 30, 2010, at 6:33 AM, Gabriel Diaz Lopez de la Llave wrote:

hello

This way (dot-it-your-self-way) we will "only" have one-man projects. . .

Do it yourself refers to the community doing anything they need. Most things are so trivial that one or two people can do it. That doesn't mean there has never been a multi person collaboration.

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





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Hugo





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