> No one's willing to spearhead a "General Purpose 9" experiment, and no > one's interested in collaborating on and contributing to such a project? > > "If you want [general purpose], you know where to get it." seems to > be the period that ends all such discussion.
I wouldn't quite agree, the discussions usually end one of three ways: - somone wants somthing like gnome, and are encouraged to run linux. - somone wants "the community" to port smthing like gnome and noone is interested so they get bored and go away. - somone wants to write some code to solve a problem they have with plan9 and the just get on with it and tell the list when its done. An example: I need SVN support at work, cinap has wrapped up his linuxemu with the snv client and the apropriate shared libraries (thanks cinap). This allows me to continue using plan9 (as I do every day, all day). In parallel I now have written a webdav client which I hope will become a DeltaV/SVN client for plan9. I feel its worth writing as I think it is interesting to try and fit the plan9 file model to SVN's version control model. I wanted it, I got on with it and wrote it. > I can't help but wonder: where's the crux of the inertia? An interesting question. If you can garner enthusism from the list perhaps you can be "the one" to spearhead a new burst of enthusism? -Steve
