Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-18 Thread Joseph Stewart
(replying to myself... somehow I missed linuxemu... sorry for the noise Russ) On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Joseph Stewart wrote: > Bear with me as I dream about work someone smarter than me does :P > > Is there any prior art on using plan9 or Inferno as a hypervisor? > > I mention this becau

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-18 Thread Joseph Stewart
Bear with me as I dream about work someone smarter than me does :P Is there any prior art on using plan9 or Inferno as a hypervisor? I mention this because it would be very cool to have a minimized OS+app image (something like what this script generates for Docker : https://github.com/Playsoft/co

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-18 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
I see this gitfs implementation, last checkin was years ago. On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > http://ipn.caerwyn.com/2008/03/lab-85-stowage.html > > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:16 PM, minux wrote: >> >> >> On Nov 17, 2014 9:29 PM, "B

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-18 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
http://ipn.caerwyn.com/2008/03/lab-85-stowage.html On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:16 PM, minux wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2014 9:29 PM, "Bakul Shah" wrote: > > I don't know about Go (the Go guys are probably already > > suffering from a massive VCS fatigue), but if you want to play > > with this idea, t

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-18 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > Quoting Jeff Sickel : > > written in Go, and not gimmicky with cartoon >> advertising everywhere. >> > > So, written in Go, but unlike Go? So, written for Plan 9, but unlike Plan 9? (remember Glenda?)

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-17 Thread minux
On Nov 17, 2014 9:29 PM, "Bakul Shah" wrote: > I don't know about Go (the Go guys are probably already > suffering from a massive VCS fatigue), but if you want to play > with this idea, there is venti! Vac can take a previous score > to do incremental archiving. If you add sepcial blocks that > st

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-17 Thread erik quanstrom
> It is more a case of "I have this neat toy. What games can I > play with it?" than anything else! More the protocol than the > disk layout. in my world, if it comes to that, i call it "work". :-) - erik

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-17 Thread Bakul Shah
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:28:51 EST erik quanstrom wrote: > On Mon Nov 17 21:27:01 EST 2014, ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 01:14:22 CST Jeff Sickel wrot > e: > > > > > > I look forward to Go's fifth version control system. Hopefully that > > > one will be concise, written in G

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-17 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Nov 17 21:27:01 EST 2014, ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 01:14:22 CST Jeff Sickel wrote: > > > > I look forward to Go's fifth version control system. Hopefully that > > one will be concise, written in Go, and not gimmicky with cartoon > > advertising everywhere. > > I d

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-17 Thread Bakul Shah
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 01:14:22 CST Jeff Sickel wrote: > > I look forward to Go's fifth version control system. Hopefully that > one will be concise, written in Go, and not gimmicky with cartoon > advertising everywhere. I don't know about Go (the Go guys are probably already suffering from a mass

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Jeff Sickel : written in Go, and not gimmicky with cartoon advertising everywhere. So, written in Go, but unlike Go? khm

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-17 Thread Ryan Gonzalez
Ooohhh...this is great! I'm really glad for this change. On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Russ Cox wrote: > i have moved the plan9port sources from mercurial to git. the instructions > at http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/install.html are up-to-date: you > can still install by downloading a .t

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-17 Thread erik quanstrom
> My priority right now is cleaning up APE’s getsockopt to support other > Python scripts, a new build of Python and Mercurial—with hggit. We > should have had decent getsockopt() and setsockopt() implementations > for a while, both will be needed for any more advanced APE dependencies— > possibl

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-17 Thread David du Colombier
> Is 9vx a candidate for this? It would seem a shame to leave it in HG world? I already asked Russ for it. I'll do the Git conversion and continue to maintain this repository. -- David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-17 Thread lucio
> perhaps more substantially, i created a github.com/9fans organization. > right now it's just plan9port, and i intended to add drawterm. if anyone > else wants to host plan9-related things there, i'm happy to add more owners. Is 9vx a candidate for this? It would seem a shame to leave it in HG w

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-17 Thread David du Colombier
> There had been two repositories, one on swtch and one on google. There had > not always been synchronized, that on google was more up-to-date. I don't > know why it had been necessary to have two repositories. Will that on google > also be removed? (I'd prefer that...) The Google Code rep

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-17 Thread Carsten Kunze
Russ Cox wrote: > i have moved the plan9port sources from mercurial to git. the instructions There had been two repositories, one on swtch and one on google. There had not always been synchronized, that on google was more up-to-date. I don't know why it had been necessary to have two reposit

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-17 Thread Carsten Kunze
Russ Cox wrote: > i have moved the plan9port sources from mercurial to git. the instructions > [...] Good thing! Will pull requests be supported? Codereview didn't seem to work that reliable... Carsten

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-16 Thread Jeff Sickel
> On Nov 16, 2014, at 10:01 PM, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > That said, a port of Git to Windows has been completed and Jeff Sickel > announced that porting Git to Plan 9 should not be too difficult, so I > look forward to efforts in this direction and plead here to assist > with such, if at a

Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-16 Thread lucio
> perhaps more substantially, i created a github.com/9fans organization. > right now it's just plan9port, and i intended to add drawterm. if anyone > else wants to host plan9-related things there, i'm happy to add more owners. Thank you, Russ. I looked briefly at Git to estimate the complexity of

[9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

2014-11-16 Thread Russ Cox
i have moved the plan9port sources from mercurial to git. the instructions at http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/install.html are up-to-date: you can still install by downloading a .tgz, or you can use git clone. it's entirely possible i've missed some things. let me know on plan9port-dev or send