On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:57, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > In few words, it > was a warning that: Plan 9 is not UNIX. >
Definitely - and this is what makes Plan 9 so appealing. > Plan9 is spartan and lean, and also very effective. > very much like UNIX was. > I like that about plan 9, and I'm very much an advocate of spartan and lean, as well as focused and well-integrated/holistic. Objective-C and the base GNUstep library/framework very much themselves contain those same attributes: light, efficient, lean. Conceptually, I think obj-c/gnustep running on plan 9 would be pretty enticing. > For example, GNUstep depends not just on the compiler, but also on many > services you find today on Linux and similar UNIXes. Trying to pull that into > Plan 9 would force you to pull many other stuff as well. > Yes, I've considered that - and I agree that it would be difficult and unsavory. But it would also be temporary, a boot-strap sort of a process. The alien cruft could be deprecated and replaced over time with natively-built components. Also, when I talk about considering porting GNUstep, I'm just talking the base/core framework libraries and whatever could be ported or rewritten easily.
