> At work, most of the users need a fortran compiler (although almost > none of them actually use gfortran, they prefer ifort) and some of them > do parallel computation so they need MPI. If I could have at least > those two items thanks to P9GCC, maybe I could convince some of them to > work on the plan9 servers I'm slowly setting up there. > I don't have any hasty plans for Fortran, but it seems to be in greater demand than C++. We'll see how things pan out. I am a little concerned that potential users need more than a compiler invocation to make things work, specially on the graphics side and maybe I ought to wave that flag rather frantically. Still, one obstacle out of the way may encourage others to address the next ones.
> As for me, I'd be pretty happy if I could have a bittorrent client > (especially libtorrent/rtorrent, written in c++) on plan9 so it'd be > rather nice if your P9GCC could achieve building that. But yeah, that > one relies on auto*, configure, etc.. Let me emphasise that the auto* stuff is nowhere near the stumbling block it's made out to be. Benavento (I hope I'm not pointing fingers at the wrong person right now - no way to check) and I have different techniques to address this, but we both have done a good deal of porting auto* dependent stuff to APE with the help of moderately simple mkfiles. Then again, I stumbled with Graphviz version 2, sadly. Graphics, networking and multithreading are much bigger issues to resolve. So your bittorrent client may be difficult to port and damn easy to redevelop. Any chance you may give it a try? ++L
