Some coordination among people who are 9fan-gonut, 9fan-godev or 9dev would be helpful; at least it will reduce unnecessary head-scratching.
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Bakul Shah <ba...@bitblocks.com> wrote: > On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:33:34 EST erik quanstrom <quans...@labs.coraid.com> > wrote: > > all this is moot unless we can get plan 9 integrated into go's automatic > > build system. is this doable? i have resources to make this happen if > > it is. > > One simple thing that can be done is to set up a cron job to > fetch updates and if anything changed, to rebuild and mail if > there are any essential differences from previous run. > > Requires no additional cooperation from anyone else and can > work for catching breakage early in any third party software. > > Another thing that can be done is to maintain a separate > "ports" repository, where you keep patches required to build > but that are not yet integrated in any upstream repo + any > other bits to a s/w package in a platform specific manner. > This is how FreeBSD ports work. Everyone shouldn't have to > track down patches and try merging them individually. > >
