On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 12:22:18AM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: > The number of people who want to run Go on Plan 9 > is already small. The number of people who want to > run Go on Plan 9 on 9vx is smaller yet. At that point > why not just run Go directly? > All that Microsoft thinking (99.9%-thinking, if you find the other label offensive) to avoid adding a minute, one-off change to the Go runtime? Sure, as Ron suggested it, it may need some additional thought, but we are talking about the Plan 9 team thinking about it, surely it would not take long to solve?
> 9vx is a nice hack but still a hack. > So is VMware, but it may be a breath of life for Plan 9 and adding features to it seems inexpensive enough. The same applies to p9p, which is another toolkit that could benefit from providing a development environment for Go. That said, I'd like to make it very clear that I am extremely grateful to all those who have contributed to making Go available on the Plan 9 platform and that I hope to be part of a growing community. The current solution to the 9vx problem seems adequate, one is merely concerned that it may come back to bite an unsuspecting third party if it is forgotten. ++L
