> You don't have to track these utilities feechur for feechur. You > don't even have to preserve the API, necessarily. Not for native-to- > Plan9 implementations. Take what's good and leave the crap behind. > (And make the good parts better, within the better environment.)
Well, if one had unlimited resources, that would be great, but with Open Source it is often the case that it's not features but bug fixes that come along thick and fast. Rewriting a library is no small task, tracking it when modified isn't much fun either. That, I'm afraid, is Plan 9's "between a rock and a hard place". ++L
