just speaking for myself, I found the fact that plan 9 was a self contained thing to be a must have. i don't consider the gcc toolchain to be a feature.
if "fast compilation" is a feature over plan 9, I'd like to see some numbers.
- erik
On Jul 25, 2015 3:15 PM, Axel Belinfante <axel.belinfa...@utwente.nl> wrote:
I couldn’t resist looking, and found in http://www.osnews.com/comments/28699
"Harvey is an effort to get the Plan 9 code working with gcc and clang”.
So, in a way it seems to be a port of Plan 9.
More details, including the feature list below, are at http://harvey-os.org
Features
• AMD 64 bit
• Modern, simplified syscall system
• GCC toolchain means you can use gdb(!)
• Compile in Linux or OSX using Harvey's headers and libs, no need to change anything else
• Fast compilation of the whole system
• All Plan9 userland apps available
• Plans to add X11 with rio-like multiplexing, tty driver, new fileserver, native toolchain and more
I’m intrigued by the “compile … using Harvey's headers and libs, no need to change anything else” —
I guess that means that it will be easy to “port” stuff to Harvey?
The team list contains names well-known on this list...
I must say, it looks quite interesting, worth checking out.
Axel.On 25 Jul 2015, at 17:58, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com> wrote:No clue. I'm guessing it's heavily inspired by Plan 9.On July 25, 2015 3:34:13 AM CDT, "steve@quintile.net" <steve@quintile.net> wrote:not sure what Harvey is... is it just plan9 ported to build on gcc?if so does gcc run under Harvey?
does gcc run under plan9 now?Stevehttps://medium.com/this-is-not-a-monad-tutorial/harvey-an-operating-system-with-plan-9-s-shadow-3081414e5f0b
I'm not affiliated with this whatsoever; I just saw it on Reddit and found it interesting.
I found this part particularly neat:
> We are working in ANSI POSIX environment to have most of well known tools and programs that programmers or end users expects to have in a modern operating system. Things that for traditional Plan 9 would be very difficult to have.
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