for goplan9 i think the differences can be hidden in Go files with proper
build directives (i.e. +build plan9 or +build !plan9). i think once you go
past the naming convention and how a 9p connection is posted or opened,
things should be the same for plan9 and posix-ish environments.

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Friedrich Psiorz <f.psi...@gmx.de> wrote:

> Thanks!
>
> I still think a real port would be better, and probably not too hard.
> But your post made me think … maybe it would be nice to separate the
> front end from the back end, so devdraw would be one possibility, the
> native file system another and possibly an imported
> 9fans.net/go/plan9/client a third one.
>
> But for now, I think I will just hard-wire the native file system for
> Plan 9 and devdraw for all other OSs.
>
> Am 10.07.2015 um 12:18 schrieb yy:
> > On 9 July 2015 at 16:52, Friedrich Psiorz <f.psi...@gmx.de> wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> I'm currently writing a graphical application in Go that I would like to
> >> be able to run both in Unix and Plan 9. Currently the 9fans.net/go/draw
> >> library only works in Unix, by connecting to p9p devdraw.
> > I am sorry I do not have answers to your questions. But here you have
> > a devdraw version which, instead of using Xlib, connects to a wsys
> > service using 9p:
> >
> > https://bitbucket.org/yiyus/devwsys-prev/src/tip/util/9p-srv.c
> >
> > I was using it from Unix, but porting to Plan 9 should be quite easy.
> > Then, go/draw would work without many changes. Of course, this
> > solution is far from optimal (the path will unnecessarily be go/draw
> > -> devdraw.9p -> wsys), but it should get the ball rolling.
> >
> >
>
>
>

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