On Jun 10, 2007, at 4:02 PM, Uriel wrote:
The most desirable way is not to use (so called) 'UNIX software' at
all (which this days is little more than an euphemism for GNU/PoSix
mountains of crud).
Best wishes
uriel
I do agree with your assessment of GNU/Posix software. However, I would
like to use this program that already runs on UNIX and (shudder)
Windows,
on Plan 9. I always hate it when people use the expediency argument on
me but the quickest way to get this running on Plan 9 is to port it
over.
My intent, after I get it running, is to look at the software in detail
and see how I can adapt it to use Plan 9 idioms to get its job done.
Since
I won't need to port the Plan 9 updates back, I can be quite ruthless in
my rewriting.
Essentially, I am trying to go from accounting to lion taming via
banking.
Also, since the software is being maintained by other people, I will
want
to pick up current versions of the source from time to time and apply my
updates to it. I was trying to isolate my source modifications to
make it
easier to keep track of what I changed vs. the original code without
having
to maintain a huge patch file.
Kim
