Hi there, I now agree with Uriel, to abandon the 9base tarball, but with another impact. I don't think it is a good idea to make wmii dependent on any original Plan 9 stuff, instead I think it should be ok to provide and maintain the rc scripts as an extra/ flavor for Plan 9 lovers (those should depend on plan9port in the future and might also want to use plumber to do the event loop work).
Thus I ask for someone willing to write sh-scripts again based on the stuff we have in hg tip under wmii/rc/ (maybe bogon?) and in wmii/cmd/wm/wmii (it is much lesser stuff than in wmii-2.x or before, maybe 150LOC of sh code, an experienced sh-lover should be able to convert it in 1-2 hours). The rc scripts should go to extra/ which might be shipped in a wmii-extra-<VERSION>.tar.gz tarball in the future. The only requirement is, that it is sh and not bash, thus it should work well with ksh, sh (BSD), and bash, which means, only use the sh subset - like we had it once in wmii-2. What do you think? I'm convinced that is the better way, to spread out wmii-3. Additionally I'm willing to support Russ Cox to push plan9port forward to be included in default distributions. PS: Yes, and reinventing wheels is bad. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
