>> I still like to point people at plan 9 ports as an example of a >> complex system that gets by without this *conf* nonsense. > > It falls over just enough to be attacked. Otherwise, p9p source would > have been ported back to Plan 9 in its entirety. It's a shame, > really, and with some work it could be fixed, but some of that work is > design work.
There is already a tool to port plan9port code back to Plan 9. See cp(1). Russ