> Yet: is there a source control system behind it? > Would it be possible to check out directly from there?
there is nothing most folks would recognize as a distributed revision control system. the repo is sources itself. history is through history(1). you can "check out" code with cp(1), tar(1), mkfs(8); you can keep up with the repo with replica(1). patches are submitted via patch(1). > If there is none, could it be that this contributes to the lack of > popularity and to the fragmentation of Plan9 (9front, 9atom, 9legacy, > PlanB, other plans...)? i would think the "lack of popularity" can be most directly attributed to the closed license in the early 90s, when there was an unfilled niche, and linux was seriously lacking. i starting doing something slightly different when il was pulled from the distribution while i was in no position to stop using it. it had nothing to do with source control. - erik
