[9fans] Borderless rio

2009-04-26 Thread yy
I'm sending this to the list because I don't remember who was talking about it in #plan9 some days ago. Somebody suggested to modify rio to open all the windows at fullscreen, this way you could run several rios as if they were workspaces. I have found more practical to add an -I option to run rio

Re: [9fans] Contrib index, snip

2009-04-26 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 17:07 -0400, Anthony Sorace wrote: > Unrelated, about a month ago I put together "snip", [3] a little > pastebin-like > service for sharing snippets of code (or whatever). Details on the > snip's contrib > page [4], but basic usage is "snip /some/file" to paste a snippe

Re: [9fans] Git Mirror

2009-04-26 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 09:25 -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > I've started a public nightly mirror of (the source code bits) from > sources using github: http://github.com/ericvh/plan-9/tree/master Great! What's your policy for updating the tree w.r.t. the actual sources? Thanks, Roman. P.S. N

Re: [9fans] 9p2010

2009-04-26 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 18:53 +0100, roger peppe wrote: > i wonder how many things would break if plan 9 moved to > a strictly name-based mapping for its mount table... What exactly do you mean by *strictly* ? Thanks, Roman.

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-26 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 00:13 +0200, Uriel wrote: > My criticism was directed at how they are actually used in pretty much > every web 'framework' under the sun: with some hideously messy ORM > layer, they plug round Objects down the square db tables, and all of > it to write applications which reall

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-26 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 19:19 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > yes. there are several web servers, including one in the standard > > dist. however, rails or merb might be something you'd have to do > > yourself. > > Did anyone already get java running on Plan9 ? Java is too many things. Strictly

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-26 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 12:54 +0100, maht wrote: > >>> How difficult would it be to use rails or merb in plan9? Is it feasible? > Not Rails or merb or anything non Plan 9 but a few of us are building an > rc shell based system that works anywhere CGI and Plan 9 / plan9port is > available. > > http

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-26 Thread hiro
>FSs have a bit of a downside in how they make everything look like tree >structures. In which way is this a constrain?

Re: [9fans] Git Mirror

2009-04-26 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Roman V. Shaposhnik wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 09:25 -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: >> I've started a public nightly mirror of (the source code bits) from >> sources using github: http://github.com/ericvh/plan-9/tree/master > > Great! What's your policy for

Re: [9fans] Contrib index, snip

2009-04-26 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
It'd be nice to have a fs that allowed posts to gist or pastebin. If no one else gets around to it, I may take a crack at it shortly. -eric On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Roman V. Shaposhnik wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 17:07 -0400, Anthony Sorace wrote: >>       Unrelated, about a mo

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2009-04-26 Thread lucio
> 1) build mingw for plan9 Give or take that all the executables fail, I have enough MINGW binutils from the NetBSD package to convince me that MINGW can be built and no doubt some debugging will soon take care of the stumbling blocks. It is true that debugging is going to be hard without s