you can grep http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/rminnich/pkgs.ls which is what contrib/gui uses to get a fast listing
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Anthony Sorace <a...@9srv.net> wrote: > Lyndon said: > >> You can also grab /n/sources/contrib/lyndon/contribindex which generates a >> pretty-printed listing of people's contrib/*/INDEX files. > > There's been several of these. Note that I run one to update the contrib > index on the wiki more or less daily. That version includes both things from > INDEX files and a listing of packages using fgb's contrib program. > http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Contrib_index/index.html > /n/sources/contrib/anothy/bin/rc/contrindx > > Lucio said: > >> What I believe is missing from sources is a simple mechanism to see if >> something I'm already somewhat familiar with has been ported successfully. > > I think the "resistance" you're encountering is really just people telling > you you're mistaken. fgb's contrib (I do wish it didn't share the name with > the section of sources) isn't perfect by any means, but it does an excellent > job of solving the problem of "where do i find what's been ported". So do > the INDEX files. Those are currently extant. I can't find any way what > you're proposing would solve that better. > > Anthony > > -- Federico G. Benavento
