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
--
Hugo
