Re: [9fans] GSoC 2012

2012-03-14 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
Sending from phone, please pardon errors. There are projects that use gsoc for docs and the like. I would see nothing wrong with someone contributing code to the installer -- especially someone with less familiarity with p9 than most 9fans -- they will likely taake longer than 1-2 weeks. Additiona

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2012

2012-03-14 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Mar 14, 2012, at 18:15 , Charles Forsyth wrote: > At least in the past, I'm sure I followed a discussion that the summer of > code was intended (ie, required) to produce code, not documentation > or packaging, although that might have changed. This is true. All projects in GSoC are required to

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2012

2012-03-14 Thread Charles Forsyth
At least in the past, I'm sure I followed a discussion that the summer of code was intended (ie, required) to produce code, not documentation or packaging, although that might have changed. On 14 March 2012 19:38, John Floren wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:03 PM, wrote: > > May I suggest

[9fans] Question about usage of Plan 9 based os systems

2012-03-14 Thread Paschke Christoph
for me very interesting question: who use a Plan 9 system productive? who use it for research? who use it just because bored with Linux as a tec gaming site? who use it commercial in a business? who use it on an embedded device? who programs with limbo? what else?

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2012

2012-03-14 Thread John Floren
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:03 PM, wrote: > May I suggest to add an "easy" project to the list: review Plan9 > installation. > > The "howto install without" (explaining how to create a Plan9 realm > from another OS if the CD can not be used) that I posted a while > ago did not attract a lot of att

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2012

2012-03-14 Thread tlaronde
May I suggest to add an "easy" project to the list: review Plan9 installation. The "howto install without" (explaining how to create a Plan9 realm from another OS if the CD can not be used) that I posted a while ago did not attract a lot of attention. But dealing with the install, I saw many detai

Re: [9fans] GSoC application & ideas page

2012-03-14 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Mar 14 14:03:34 EDT 2012, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: > > >> I'd suggest to complete native SSH2 implementation. > > > > > > ... > > > > Let's not take this one completely off the table yet.  SSHv2 > > would be extremely useful in helping open up communication > > with external systems a

Re: [9fans] GSoC application & ideas page

2012-03-14 Thread Brian L. Stuart
> >> I'd suggest to complete native SSH2 implementation. > > > > ... > > Let's not take this one completely off the table yet.  SSHv2 > would be extremely useful in helping open up communication > with external systems again. As Erik said, there is a substantial effort here, probably more than w

[9fans] Octopus, extend tentacles to an distributed gui / app concept?

2012-03-14 Thread V-CA ! Christoph Paschke
Today I was driving long time to my working place and I had time to think about realizing projects at Plan 9 / Octopus base. First I realize practically, that I will have more than one octopus PC the same as I have more than one Mac-Server today. There are different contexts of usage and you will n

Re: [9fans] Mercurial and Plan 9

2012-03-14 Thread Yaroslav
Speaking of which... what would be the trick to make libsec visible for an APE source? -- - Yaroslav

Re: [9fans] Mercurial and Plan 9

2012-03-14 Thread Steven Stallion
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Jeff Sickel wrote: > Do you see this as a potential GSoC effort?  The sans-ape version, > build based off CPython 2.7 or 3.x?  There are more dependencies > than just Python, but if we did have this updated then there would be > more opportunity for people to expe

Re: [9fans] GSoC application & ideas page

2012-03-14 Thread erik quanstrom
> On Mar 13, 2012, at 11:42 PM, Anthony Sorace wrote: > > >> I'd suggest to complete native SSH2 implementation. > > > > This has obvious utility, but I'm hesitant to add it without a > > mentor who can vouch for its suitability for a summer-sized > > student project, and who'd be willing to ment

Re: [9fans] hardware device (...)

2012-03-14 Thread erik quanstrom
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Re: [9fans] hardware device (...)

2012-03-14 Thread erik quanstrom
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Re: [9fans] Mercurial and Plan 9

2012-03-14 Thread erik quanstrom
> I believe the biggest sore spot is the lack of a modern Python port. +1. particularly one that compiles on every architechture. the current code has a few mistakes like defining FPINVAL (depending on the architecture) instead of including float.h. > Ideally we could have a more complete por

Re: [9fans] Mercurial and Plan 9

2012-03-14 Thread Charles Forsyth
The Python libraries expect an APE environment, and that assumption is deeply built in to it. The previous attempt to do a so-called "native" port ended up writing large chunks of APE in Python, which was a bit of a waste of time, or it couldn't run all the existing things, such as Mercurial. Using

Re: [9fans] GSoC application & ideas page

2012-03-14 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
> Oddly enough, that idea does not come with the rider, "And then force > Peter to use the library exclusively". I somehow doubt that acme will [snip] Be sure I will never downgrade to bells and whistles that add no functionality, hewever, others would.hen rewrite every other's program UI? :-) Be