On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Brian Zhou<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 24, 6:16 pm, uriel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Regarding 9base, I really would recommend avoiding it, it is very >> outdated. I'm working on a replacement that should lessen some of the >> pain of depending on p9p, in the meantime it should be trivial to >> install p9p on another box and copy over the binaries. >> > Target devices are headless NAS and some routers, so optware usually > does not build X11 at all.
Hummmmm... well, X11 doesn't matter, I run werc / p9p on many servers without a trace of X11 in them. You can build / run p9p just fine without X11, programs that use draw wont be built, but none of them are used by werc. > I updated 9base to 20090309 from http://code.suckless.org/dl/misc/ it > seems to work fine (du command is missing from 9base). Despite appearances, I doubt that copy of 9base is very recent, that date seems to be the time the files were copied to that server. > I guess the replacement you're preparing basically should be like an > up-to-date 9base. Better to coordinate. What I had in mind for now was a simpler and more 'brute force' solution than 9base, basically was to collect sets of p9p binaries (the ones used by werc) into a package similar to inferno-bin ( http://code.google.com/p/inferno-bin/ ) which one could drop directly into a werc installation, and it would automatically pick the right binaries for your arch (using a similar mechanism as the multi-arch support in native plan9). It would be simple, and 100% hassle free for users that don't want to build their own p9p. And they would get static binaries out of the box too, which improves performance (and saves trouble). uriel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "werc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/werc9?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
