don't get me wrong, I don't want gcc, but my employer requires it, and I would rather develop on plan even if I cannot develop for plan9.
I do this at present, my main machine is a pi2, and my gcc, Firefox, and outlook co-processor is a windows laptop. it works, but I resent carting a laptop around. -Steve > On 26 Jul 2015, at 18:33, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > > just speaking for myself, I found the fact that plan 9 was a self contained > thing to be a must have. i don't consider the gcc toolchain to be a feature. > > if "fast compilation" is a feature over plan 9, I'd like to see some numbers. > > - erik > On Jul 25, 2015 3:15 PM, Axel Belinfante <axel.belinfa...@utwente.nl> wrote: > I couldn’t resist looking, and found in http://www.osnews.com/comments/28699 > > "Harvey is an effort to get the Plan 9 code working with gcc and clang”. > > So, in a way it seems to be a port of Plan 9. > > More details, including the feature list below, are at http://harvey-os.org > > Features > > • AMD 64 bit > • Modern, simplified syscall system > • GCC toolchain means you can use gdb(!) > • Compile in Linux or OSX using Harvey's headers and libs, no need to > change anything else > • Fast compilation of the whole system > • All Plan9 userland apps available > • Plans to add X11 with rio-like multiplexing, tty driver, new > fileserver, native toolchain and more > > I’m intrigued by the “compile … using Harvey's headers and libs, no need to > change anything else” — > I guess that means that it will be easy to “port” stuff to Harvey? > > The team list contains names well-known on this list... > > I must say, it looks quite interesting, worth checking out. > > Axel. > > On 25 Jul 2015, at 17:58, Ryan Gonzalez <rym...@gmail.com> wrote: > > No clue. I'm guessing it's heavily inspired by Plan 9. > > On July 25, 2015 3:34:13 AM CDT, "st...@quintile.net" <st...@quintile.net> > wrote: > not sure what Harvey is... is it just plan9 ported to build on gcc? > > if so does gcc run under Harvey? > > does gcc run under plan9 now? > > Steve > > > > > On 25 Jul 2015, at 01:43, Ryan Gonzalez <rym...@gmail.com> wrote: > > https://medium.com/this-is-not-a-monad-tutorial/harvey-an-operating-system-with-plan-9-s-shadow-3081414e5f0b > > I'm not affiliated with this whatsoever; I just saw it on Reddit and found it > interesting. > > I found this part particularly neat: > > > We are working in ANSI POSIX environment to have most of well known tools > > and programs that programmers or end users expects to have in a modern > > operating system. Things that for traditional Plan 9 would be very > > difficult to have. > > -- > Sent from my Nexus 5 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > -- > Sent from my Nexus 5 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >
