2009/8/7 Roman Shaposhnik <r...@sun.com>: > On Aug 6, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I revived the 9base project which was asleep for nearly 3 years som >> days ago and created a new version based on Russ' plan9port from >> 20090731. You can download it from: >> >> http://code.suckless.org/dl/tools/9base-3.tar.gz >> >> its project page can be found at: >> >> http://tools.suckless.org/9base >> >> and you can also clone it using mercurial as follow: >> >> hg clone http://hg.suckless.org/9base > > So, is this just a slimmer version of plan9port?
It's just yacc, rc and several shell commands for scripting, so it can be used if you prefer a plan 9 userland when writing shell scripts. Also 9base can be build using posix make(1). Initially I created it because we wrote several shell scripts for wmii (http://wmii.suckless.org), the reason for reviving it is basically werc (http://werc.cat-v.org). I simply didn't want to install full featured plan9port on a server to just run werc, 9base is ideal in such cases. It's just 35kSLOC (in contrast to the 500+kSLOC of plan9port), hence smaller than bash for instance, but including all dependencies. All kudos go to Russ for his excellent plan9port work though. Kind regards, Anselm
