Hmmm, my question was not about new ideological war "GNU vs Plan9". )) I think that my bad English does not allow me to ask my question in correct form, so i will show some sample :)
For example, in Linux i have some big application. This application using autotools, so if a want to port it, for example on different OS (of course if this OS has autotools) or hardware all i need is go throw sources and put something like: #ifdef RUN_IN_CYGWIN // some specific code #endif After that i need to add extra tests in configure and autotools will do all magic for me :) The main trouble is that all sources has really many pieces of #ifdef code, so it could be very painful to drop out "portability in GNU way". But it's ok, until that is a only way. Ok, for me "porting" to plan9 looks like: 1. Drop out autotools from project 2. Replace all OS specific code to Plan9 equivalent 3. Replace all libs to it's equivalent for plan9 4. and so on Main trouble in 1 step. Because after that i couldn't post in project mail list, "Hey gays, i have create Plan9 port of your application, please check it out and put in CVS trunk". If i "port" some application in that way, that mean that I've start new one, "from scratch" and just copy & paste some code from original project :(( I hope that i have logical mistakes in my example, and you show me that, because if not it could be very sad :)) 2008/2/3, Eris Discordia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:30:38 -0000, Rob Pike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> An alternative interpretation is that the facts are skewed by the Bell > >> Labs reality distortion field. The syllogism goes something like this: > >> > >> All things not made at Bell Labs are bad > >> GNU is not made at Bell Labs > >> Therefore, GNU is bad > >> > > > > If you think about what the letters of GNU stand for, you might > > appreciate > > that the forms are in mutual opposition. They provide completely > > different > > approaches to software. "Good" and "Bad" are value judgments. If > > you think GNU is the right way to build things, Plan 9 is probably not > > for you, and vice versa. > > > > -rob > > Is that "the" Rob Pike? "The R?" > > If so, please accept me humble reverence, sire! Hallowed be thy practice > (of programming)! > > P. S. Down here in my country, Iran, we have this tradition of inventing > sacred things out of thin air. A considerable proportion of "the divine > and the sacred" spilled all over the globe began with that frailty of ours > :-D > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ >
