On Tue May 20 12:42:35 EDT 2014, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: > I have a different perspective. There are millions of chromebooks out > there updating all the time, from the firmware to the kernel to the > root file system to everything. It all works. > > If you are telling me that the upgrade technology of Plan 9 can not > handle an automatic upgrade, fine; we have the proof. > > If you are telling me Plan 9 should not or never will be able to > handle an automatic upgrade, and is going to require a heads up email > for each kernel change, I have a hard time taking that seriously. > > This is not a human communication problem. It's a technology problem, > trivially solved for many years now by many systems.
leaving aside the fact that plan 9 is software that installs everywhere and users can be expected to modify any and all system components, and that android is a hardware appliance running essentially a binary blob.... if we had a perfect update mechanism that did ota updates seamlessly, it would not address the issue i'm trying to raise. since people modify the system, and there's a community built around this, it would be extremely helpful if big system changes where communicated. - erik
