On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 05:02:59PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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?
Well if there was one project I'd try to code for, that would probably be it. I even thought about proposing myself as a student for gsoc with this idea in mind (although I seem to recall one condition is to be a student irl, which is not my case anymore). However I'm pretty sure I would not be able to commit enough time to it, so it would be kindof worthless to start with it and never get to finish it properly. Besides, I have not coded seriously in a long time, so I'm probably not the right candidate to write something that doesn't suck atm. Mathieu. -- GPG key on subkeys.pgp.net: KeyID: | Fingerprint: 683DE5F3 | 4324 5818 39AA 9545 95C6 09AF B0A4 DFEA 683D E5F3 --
