On Saturday 17 April 2010 00:28:42 SHRIZZA wrote: > Long-windedness aside, your thought process is fairly sound. >
Sorry for the annoying verbosity. It's difficult for me to express the ideas more succinctly in a manner that reduces the risk of flames or misunderstanding. > However, keep in mind that Plan 9 represents an escape from the > perversion of Unix. > That remains a valid, useful, and extremely valuable design goal. It's imperative that the current official Plan 9 sources and distro remain undisturbed. > Is a compromise between Plan 9 and "Plan X" worth the risk of > history repeating itself? > I realize I'm not omniscient - heck I'm not even very talented! - but I'm not seeing how LLVM/Clang, and a little more POSIX (where necessary to help port and 9'ify _select_ libraries) - induces a significant risk of folks aiming to UNIX'ify (or LINUX'ify or GNU'ify) "Plan X". The GNU/*NIX'ification of a Plan 9 based operating system just seems to be a completely counter-productive, non-viable endeavor. I couldn't imagine such an act of sheer pointlessness to gain much traction. Though I can imagine reasonable temporary stop gaps being used when necessary, to be deprecated once the kludges in question are replaced with their appropriately 9'ish solutions. Cheers
