Re: [9fans] 9p2010

2009-04-27 Thread roger peppe
2009/4/26 Roman V. Shaposhnik r...@sun.com: 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* ? i mean using pathnames rather than using

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-27 Thread Uriel
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Roman V. Shaposhnik r...@sun.com wrote: 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

Re: [9fans] Borderless rio

2009-04-27 Thread erik quanstrom
labels=$* if(test $#labels -lt 1) labels=(1 2 3 4) rio.b -I -i'\ for(label in $labels) window -miny 40 ''rio -i label ''$label # give time to set all the labels sleep 0.5 window -dy 39 ''winwatch -e

[9fans] Acme column layout box and buttons

2009-04-27 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
Hello, Acme likes to place new windows itself. If you prefer to change the layout of a window, you only need to drag the /layout box/ at the left of the tag line and drop it somewhere else. The point where you drop it selects the column where the window is to be placed now, as well as the line

Re: [9fans] Acme column layout box and buttons

2009-04-27 Thread erik quanstrom
That's a lot of good actions attached to all the three buttons for handling vertical layouts. How about adding similar actions to all the three buttons for managing horizontal layouts to a column /layout box/. good idea. - erik

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-27 Thread erik quanstrom
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

Re: [9fans] Acme column layout box and buttons

2009-04-27 Thread yy
2009/4/27 Balwinder S Dheeman bsd.sans...@cto.homelinux.net: That's a lot of good actions attached to all the three buttons for handling vertical layouts. How about adding similar actions to all the three buttons for managing horizontal layouts to a column /layout box/. I had a patched

Re: [9fans] Acme column layout box and buttons

2009-04-27 Thread hiro
Seems logical, but I personally never felt a need for this. To prevent line breaks I normally end up moving the windows to an other, bigger column... On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Balwinder S Dheeman bsd.sans...@cto.homelinux.net wrote: Hello, Acme likes to place new windows itself. If you

Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?

2009-04-27 Thread erik quanstrom
And as an added bonus... Erik will be in his time zone. So if anyone wants to work out ride-share or car rental details with him he won't (most likely) show up a day before. have faith! i could also get the switch back to dst wrong. - erik

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-27 Thread maht
P.S. So far it seems that werc wouldn't be able to manage highly dynamic and volatile URI hierarchies as long as it is run under anything but Plan9. Ironically it doesn't seem to run there. I use ~ patterns for URI matching on my site http://ten.steponnopets.net/ it's a bit of a work

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-27 Thread erik quanstrom
I use ~ patterns for URI matching on my site what are ~ patterns? - erik

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2009-04-27 Thread Steve Simon
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 symbol information (one

[9fans] rio in rio and ghost windows.

2009-04-27 Thread cinap_lenrek
Test case: draw a window... run rio inside that thing draw another window and hide it. now rezise the rio window. now, the region where the window was seems to eat mouse events, but the window is hidden. Fix: in rio.c:^resized, change this: ... if(ishidden)

Re: [9fans] rio in rio and ghost windows.

2009-04-27 Thread erik quanstrom
can anyone confirm this yes. your patch properly resizes the hidden window as well as fixing the bug. and may make a patch? i'll leave that up to you. - erik

Re: [9fans] just in case anyone has written this

2009-04-27 Thread andrey mirtchovski
the p9p version of xcpu used to do something similar, but the old svn repository is gone now so i can't verify. i see an old version of rx.c in 9grid:/usr/andrey/src/xcpu/rx.c which does something similar to what you want with threads, channels and procs but doesn't combine the input. it doesn't

[9fans] just in case anyone has written this

2009-04-27 Thread ron minnich
before I write it. I need a command that concentrates one socket to many (outbound) and many to one (inbound) But it needs to do a bit more. On the inbound side, I need it to merge lines so that, e.g., a line from 11.1.1.1 and 11.1.1.2 if same, gets printed as 1-2: Mon may 8 2011 and if we

[9fans] New to the list and looking for an old plan9 book/cd

2009-04-27 Thread kyle
Hi all, Im new to the list. My interest in plan9 is to get it up and running on some of my NeXT boxes(stations, non-turbo). Things are a bit confusing for me when it comes to the current distro, but I do see a howto for an older plan9 release. I also found this post in the archives:

Re: [9fans] New to the list and looking for an old plan9 book/cd

2009-04-27 Thread Anthony Sorace
all that information is for the second edition. the third edition involved a pretty substantial set of internal changes. things were improved in almost every way, but one casualty was much of the platform support in the cpu/terminal kernel. in particular, we don't run on the NeXT boxes any more.

[9fans] The Olde 2e 'worthies' ... ?

2009-04-27 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
'kyle000' provokes an interesting question: what is the status of the 2e registered licensees list I fuzzily remember? I used to have the hard copy license from the back of the bubble envelope, but it now lives in a galaxy far far away. --lyndon

Re: [9fans] The Olde 2e 'worthies' ... ?

2009-04-27 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
I happen to have the license in front of me, what do you want to know? At 8:28 PM -0700 4/27/09, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: 'kyle000' provokes an interesting question: what is the status of the 2e registered licensees list I fuzzily remember? I used to have the hard copy license from the back of

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2009-04-27 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. My apologies, this was meant to be private mail to

Re: [9fans] 9vx

2009-04-27 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Russ Cox r...@swtch.com wrote: if you make clean and then edit the top-level src/Makefrag file to add -m32 to the HOST_CFLAGS and then make 9vx/9vx you are likely to get a working binary. I'm just trying this now. I was missing stubs-32.h on FC9. I had to do

Re: [9fans] The Olde 2e 'worthies' ... ?

2009-04-27 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
I happen to have the license in front of me, what do you want to know? I recall there was a registry of 2e license holders. For those of us wanting to swap code restricted by the old Labs 2e license, it was the way to determine if the proposed recipient was a valid license holder. Again,