2013/3/18 Tassilo Philipp <tphil...@potion-studios.com> > "Dude", give it some time... You are writing to a mailing list of a rather > small, but _dedicated_ community, that is absolutely open to good ideas and > design. However, I'd bet that a lot of us have a lot of things to do, every > day - things that have nothing to do with Plan9. > > I, for example, I work in games. PC games to be precise, a > Windows-dominated world. I learned a lot through this list, and surely miss > many of the Plan9 ideas in other operating systems. I would love to spend > 100% of my time to port software to Plan9 (which it is lacking, for sure), > but simply can't. Work, family, personal projects, 50+ emails a day to work > through, etc.. You know, I see so many interesting ideas from all kinds of > people every week, and I usually leave my browser-tabs open, to look at > them in detail, later. And guess what: often, I never get around it. >
I second that. I wanted to look into ANTS since you first posted about it, but I just simply didn't have the time. To read about it, set it up, read some more, play around with it. That would take at least 4-5 hours. Just to get a feel of it. I don't have that much free time on a weekday and usually even my weekends are full with personal programs. It takes me a few weeks to check something out. But since then you have posted at least forty mails, complaining that noone gave you feedback. You've been working on this for a long time. You know it inside out. But for us this is a totally new (and btw huge) project. Let it sink in. ANTS looks interesting. I'm sure a few people will try it and maybe like it, even use, and contribute to it. Just be patient. Nobody likes if someone is pestering him about something he's doing as a favour. And I don't think IBM will give a shit if the 500 people using Plan 9 has ANTS which has similar goals as one of their projects, which they patented an implementation for. So calm the fuck down, it's all good ☺
