Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 08:34:32AM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote:
> We just got a mouthful from sl and you about the lack of explanation
> for the state  of the various plan 9 "distributions". It all smacks of
> expecting Da Vinci to update the Mona Lisa because somebody would
> prefer a high-rise landscape in the background and because someone
> actually did photoshop the Mona Lisa in that guise, but was not
> accepted as the most significant contributor to the painting.

I'm not really following the art analogy here, but nothing I've said on
this list is new.  It's all documented either on 9front.org or (more
frequently) in the manual, which comes with the operating system.  The
9front ISO also contains the complete mercurial history of 9front, but
does not include or refer to the 'ports' repo. 

Most of the developers of 9front don't use (or even like) the 'ports' 
repository.  As far as I know the software in it works on any Plan 9
system.  Regardless, I'll work with its maintainers to clarify the
non-relationship in the README file.

If you have any other suggestions for improving the state of things, let
me know.  

If I'm honest, I suspect most of 9fans doesn't really give a shit about
most of these issues.  If anyone did, they probably would have said
something before now, or done something to ameliorate any of them.
Instead, they only seem to show up when someone gets mad about something
else and then decides to air unrelated grievances -- which is a shame, 
because the sooner they're voiced the easier it is to fix things.  I'm
sure the performative outrage is much more gratifying in the moment.

If anyone wants anything fixed, I'm available for that.  If I have to
wait until someone whatabouts something else, that's fine too, it's just
slower.  Either way, I'll try.

khm


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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Lucio De Re
On 11/23/19, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote:

> i'm not sure you got sl's philosophy here. of course he will deny i
> do, but here's my interpretation anyway: the public generally seems to
> frown upon technology. people don't even want products any more. all
> they need is a flashy name. a future idea to be had. just buy another
> app, download it. don't even use it. try it out another day when it is
> actually more convenient for you.
>
This here is a "Plan 9 contributors mutual admiration society" mailing
list, a lot like a very large marriage; with all the thorns that
complement the occasional budding rose and all the pain the hopefully
rare divorce brings.

Somebody coming along to promote 9front as the real heir to some
totally inappropriate throne, to lord it over a scattering of
communities that like to play with the one exotic toy they managed to
salvage when they escaped from the clutches of Bill Gates first and
Linus Torvalds second, well, that someone should at least show some
manners.

Failing which, I think it is reasonable for them to get escoriated, as
there seem to be few if any other mechanism for the local team
supporters to express their annoyance.

Of course, I presume none of us "bitter old hypocrites (of the male
variety)" - as Aram seems to have felt a need to label us - would risk
trying to bully the 9front mailing list participants, in our frailty.
Nevertheless, maybe just pointing out that bullying is so 1980s will
have some positive effect, at least for a couple of days.

Lucio.

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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Lucio De Re
On 11/24/19, Kurt H Maier  wrote:
>
> The other repos on that site are either user repos run by random people
> who asked me for access, or else various code I've collected around the
> internet and did not want to lose.  Some of those repos came from Uriel
> and I never have figured out what they are or where they came from.  If
> anyone can help with those, I'd appreciate it.
>
We just got a mouthful from sl and you about the lack of explanation
for the state  of the various plan 9 "distributions". It all smacks of
expecting Da Vinci to update the Mona Lisa because somebody would
prefer a high-rise landscape in the background and because someone
actually did photoshop the Mona Lisa in that guise, but was not
accepted as the most significant contributor to the painting.

I really don't feel like being kind to that sentiment, but I will
refrain to lower myself to the level of disrespect that sl
demonstrated. You used to have that position, Kurt with Hiro a close
second (no offence intended, Kurt or Hiro, we are what we are and I
find much of it stimulating), but between sl and Aram, they have left
the two of you standing!

Lucio.

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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Bakul Shah
On Nov 23, 2019, at 9:25 PM, greemngr...@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> I was just curious if it had any chances of coming back or were 9legacy and 
> 9front the only options.

Ah. :-) But why? It is just out of idle curiosity, such
as wondering about an old friend you haven't seen in
decades or you actually wanted to use plan9?

Personally I'd recommend 9pi. Raspi + 9pi is a great
combination and there is plenty to explore, plenty of real
world things to control. There are a lot of pi "hats" that
would be fun to play with or use.



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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread greemngreek
I was just curious if it had any chances of coming back or were 9legacy and 
9front the only options.
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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Bakul Shah
On Nov 21, 2019, at 10:29 PM, greemngr...@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> The site hasn't been updated since 2014-2015. If it's dead, is there any 
> chance of it coming back into development?

Why do you ask? What do you want to do?
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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 04:35:25PM -0600, Steven Stallion wrote:
> The upstream version of Mercurial in the 9front ports collection is
> based on my work, not bichued's:
> https://code.9front.org/hg/ports/file/5f994209e142/dev-vcs/mercurial/mkfile
> 

That repo is run by 9front users; I just host it.  That's why the
contact point is mveety in the repo listing.  9front doesn't ship any of
that code.  

> The amount of work wasn't much, but if you're going to dredge up
> ancient history, at least be accurate:

I wasn't aware I was dredging anything up.  You complained about
something, and I went looking to see if I could fix the problem.

This repo is 9front:  http://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front/

Nothing else is 9front, and all of 9front is in that repo.  Here is the
revision history for the mercurial mkfile in 9front:
http://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front/log/tip/sys/src/cmd/hg/mkfile

Obviously the people who work on the ports appreciate your effort, but
it is not the same port of mercurial that 9front uses.  I hope this
clears up the issue.

In the future, if anyone is dissatisfied with any of the attribution or
use of any of the code in 9front, please feel free to contact the 9front
mailing list, and I'll do my best to verify & fix any such problems.
Complete archives are available over 9p; there's a script to make
accessing them easier at
https://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front/file/tip/rc/bin/9fs

If you'd prefer, you can also email me directly.

The other repos on that site are either user repos run by random people
who asked me for access, or else various code I've collected around the
internet and did not want to lose.  Some of those repos came from Uriel
and I never have figured out what they are or where they came from.  If
anyone can help with those, I'd appreciate it.

thanks,
khm

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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
It is unfortunate that some believe that being caustic is a prerequisite
for 9front advocacy.

Worse, many 9front advocates become offended by any challenge to claims
they make, while at the same time administering personal insults with ease.

Fixing the fragmentation doesn't come from starting yet another fork.



On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 3:10 PM Ori Bernstein  wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 08:24:41 -0600, Steven Stallion 
> wrote:
>
> Against my better judgement...
>
> On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 08:24:41 -0600, Steven Stallion 
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 3:30 AM Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com>
> wrote:
> > > Grow up.
> >
> > Indeed. It's interesting that folks from 9front like to tout their
> > development as "open" using tools that others in the community have
> > developed in addition to their own. To wit, you seem to have gotten
> > along quite nicely using the porting work I did for Mercurial in 2012.
>
> Yes, and thank you. I mean that.
>
> You put your code in the open, and people that found it useful
> were able to use it.
>
> > The Plan 9 community is certainly fragmented, but there are still a
> > number of people that are willing to share their knowledge and work
> > with others and it benefits no one to cast aspersions.
> 
> It's frustrating. I *want* to see a healthy, active Labs
> distribution.
> 
> From my viewpoint, fragmentation doesn't capture the nature of the
> difficulty. The problem is that the fragments are invisible.
> 
> The most official looking site for vanilla plan9 is 9p.io.  It
> doesn't show any sign of activity since 2015.  The wiki not only
> fails to point to a more up to date location, it confuses the
> issue by exclusively pointing at dead links.
> 
> 9legacy exists. It doesn't bill itself as living continuation of
> Plan 9.  It claims it's a patch set for the last image to come
> out of the moldering corpse of Bell Labs. Even there, '9fs sources'
> tries to connect to the long-gone sources.cs.bell-labs.com.
> 
> There's code scattered on contrib, but as for who has the most up
> to date/maintained/functioinal version of something -- it's
> hearsay, and usually, I haven't heard anyone say.
> 
> There's the plan9-contrib github repository, but the last commit
> on that was over a year ago, and until recently, there was no way
> to use it *from* plan 9 -- now, lufia has ported git, and I wrote
> git9.  Lufia's patches seem to be stalled in review.
> 
> There are contrib directories, but projects are haphazardly thrown
> in, often duplicated them, with no indication of what's working,
> up to date, or maintained.
> 
> Code may exist, but...  where?  I've been around for a while and I
> would have trouble finding the bits needed for a day-to-day usable
> system outside of the 9front world.
> 
> God have mercy on someone trying to use the system seriously for the
> first time.
> 
> --
> Ori Bernstein

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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Ori Bernstein
On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 08:24:41 -0600, Steven Stallion  wrote:

Against my better judgement...

On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 08:24:41 -0600, Steven Stallion  wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 3:30 AM Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> > Grow up.
> 
> Indeed. It's interesting that folks from 9front like to tout their
> development as "open" using tools that others in the community have
> developed in addition to their own. To wit, you seem to have gotten
> along quite nicely using the porting work I did for Mercurial in 2012.

Yes, and thank you. I mean that.

You put your code in the open, and people that found it useful
were able to use it.

> The Plan 9 community is certainly fragmented, but there are still a
> number of people that are willing to share their knowledge and work
> with others and it benefits no one to cast aspersions.

It's frustrating. I *want* to see a healthy, active Labs
distribution.

>From my viewpoint, fragmentation doesn't capture the nature of the
difficulty. The problem is that the fragments are invisible.

The most official looking site for vanilla plan9 is 9p.io.  It
doesn't show any sign of activity since 2015.  The wiki not only
fails to point to a more up to date location, it confuses the
issue by exclusively pointing at dead links.

9legacy exists. It doesn't bill itself as living continuation of
Plan 9.  It claims it's a patch set for the last image to come
out of the moldering corpse of Bell Labs. Even there, '9fs sources'
tries to connect to the long-gone sources.cs.bell-labs.com.

There's code scattered on contrib, but as for who has the most up
to date/maintained/functioinal version of something -- it's
hearsay, and usually, I haven't heard anyone say.

There's the plan9-contrib github repository, but the last commit
on that was over a year ago, and until recently, there was no way
to use it *from* plan 9 -- now, lufia has ported git, and I wrote
git9.  Lufia's patches seem to be stalled in review.

There are contrib directories, but projects are haphazardly thrown
in, often duplicated them, with no indication of what's working,
up to date, or maintained.

Code may exist, but...  where?  I've been around for a while and I
would have trouble finding the bits needed for a day-to-day usable
system outside of the 9front world.

God have mercy on someone trying to use the system seriously for the
first time.

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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread hiro
> The amount of work wasn't much

then why bring it up?

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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread hiro
oh. nobody uses that. i wish that stupid ports repo didn't exist :)

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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Steven Stallion
The upstream version of Mercurial in the 9front ports collection is
based on my work, not bichued's:
https://code.9front.org/hg/ports/file/5f994209e142/dev-vcs/mercurial/mkfile

The amount of work wasn't much, but if you're going to dredge up
ancient history, at least be accurate:
http://mail.9fans.net/pipermail/9fans/2012-April/023243.html
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Plan9FromBellLabs
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/FactotumExtension
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2012-April/039078.html

On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 2:28 PM Kurt H Maier  wrote:
> 
> To follow up, 9front mercurial originated from
> /n/sources/contrib/bichued/ in 2009.  So this is yet another example of
> the complete lack of discoverability being a source of unending
> confusion in the Plan 9 community.  How many years have people been
> pissed off about "stolen work" or whatever based on similar
> misconceptions?  We'll never know.  So much information gets lost, and
> it takes concentrated effort to reconstruct the timelines.  A stitch in
> time saves nine!
> 
> khm

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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Kurt H Maier
To follow up, 9front mercurial originated from
/n/sources/contrib/bichued/ in 2009.  So this is yet another example of
the complete lack of discoverability being a source of unending
confusion in the Plan 9 community.  How many years have people been
pissed off about "stolen work" or whatever based on similar
misconceptions?  We'll never know.  So much information gets lost, and
it takes concentrated effort to reconstruct the timelines.  A stitch in
time saves nine!

khm

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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 08:24:41AM -0600, Steven Stallion wrote:
> 
> Indeed. It's interesting that folks from 9front like to tout their
> development as "open" using tools that others in the community have
> developed in addition to their own. To wit, you seem to have gotten
> along quite nicely using the porting work I did for Mercurial in 2012.

I'm not sure what this paragraph means.  Can you clarify?  If you feel
something in 9front is misattributed or should be clarified as your
work, it will take seconds to fix. Can you be specific?  Initial commits
were in 2011, and I don't see much change to the mercurial code until
some CVE fixes in 2014.  I'd be happy to amend the record on your
behalf.

I also don't understand the scare quotes around "open" or the part about
using other people's software.  That's kind of the point of the license.

> (FWIW, I found this response especially entertaining after visiting
> code.9front.org; "Just Send the Money" indeed.)

402 Payment Required is my default response to search engine crawlers
and unpopulated URL paths.  code.9front.org returns that up front to
mitigate search engines, which otherwise beat the shit out of hgweb.
9front infrastructure is all paid for out of pocket by me and sl, so
we're not really interested in spending bandwidth on Google's bottom
line.  the actual hgweb pages (everything under code.9front.org/hg) have
working search functions.

the "just send the money" text is a decade-old joke about support
contracts and how they handle bug reports.   You may note that there is
no actual money-collecting infrastructure presented, because nobody
actually sends the money.

khm

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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 09:29:14AM +, Richard Miller wrote:
> 
> Never mind, I think I can just about see the gist of what you're
> trying to get across.  It's meant to be insulting, right?
> 

It's meant to be a practical answer.  When people come looking for
information, they want to know where the information is.  "It's in six
different places, and the only consistent place to find them is by
asking over and over again on a mailing list, because they move every
couple years" is not an answer that people find much use for.

Generalizations are useful ways to get an overall picture of the
situation.  If you read the documents on 9p.io, none of the people who
currently develop Plan 9 or software for it are even mentioned except in
the contrib index.  

An example of this is how people always describe 9p.io as a mirror.  I'm
grateful it's up, but the first time I found out that people have been
posting source code to it post-mirror is *in this thread*.  How is
anyone supposed to have been able to discover this?  Repeatedly walking
the tree and diffing everything just in case?

Another good example is the kernel changes we only find out about when
someone tries to build a Go beta on 9front, fails, and then we realize
that someone on that team has modified the kernel for the language.  I
opened a ticket and asked for such things to be mentioned in the Go
release notes, and they kindly accomodated me.  But that was not the
default behavior; the default behavior was to assume everyone was
monitoring some mercurial repository on bitbucket.  Those assumptions do
not hold.

As for the "just send the money" joke, the code lives at
code.9front.org/hg/ and the (little-used, despite years of requests for
its existence) wiki is at code.9front.org/wiki/.  The code repos are
documented on 9front.org and the wiki is not advertised beyond the
people who asked for it, but it's open to everyone and contains a
changelog.  

I appreciate the work that people put into Plan 9.  The reality of that
work is that it's scattered, difficult to find, and necessitates years
of monitoring 9fans to identify the people who do it.  That works for
the people involved, and nobody at this point expects it to change, but
it is extremely disconnected from the way people tend to go about
developing software nowadays.  For all practical purposes, sl's answer
is accurate.  Whether it's insulting is really up to the reader.

khm

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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread hiro
imo you should not allow insult by who only tried to insult you in
weakness of feeling insulted by former accused insult.

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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Federico Benavento
Yeah, WTF.

> On 23 Nov 2019, at 14:16, Skip Tavakkolian  wrote:
> 
> 
> I think (hope) this is sarcasm.
> 
>> On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 6:35 AM Aram Hăvărneanu  wrote:
>> Steve and Richard,
>> 
>> You are a bunch of hypocrites. Bitter old men.
>> 
>> --
>> Aram Hăvărneanu
> 
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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread hiro
On 11/23/19, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
>> nobody takes any of it seriously because none of them really use
>> plan 9 to do anything people use computers to do
...
> Never mind, I think I can just about see the gist of what you're
> trying to get across.  It's meant to be insulting, right?

it's insulting to you that nobody takes plan9 serious? or that sl
feels the need to point it out while you know better?

or you disagree? because you take plan9 serious?

i'm not sure you got sl's philosophy here. of course he will deny i
do, but here's my interpretation anyway: the public generally seems to
frown upon technology. people don't even want products any more. all
they need is a flashy name. a future idea to be had. just buy another
app, download it. don't even use it. try it out another day when it is
actually more convenient for you.

never threaten the user that your system will enable them to do
anything. nobody wants an IDE, or to configure an operating system. if
you can just open another tab, why should you buy another computer and
install and configure an operating system that doesn't auto-update
itself and is always out-of-date bec. it lacks support of any
mainstream protocol like netflix or instagram.

if they were consistent they would laugh about ALL operating systems,
but apple and microsoft spend a good deal of marketing to prevent that
:)

it seems that 9front and plan9 are both ridiculous to the public. in
the case of the former i would like to take pride and say for good
reason. for the latter i think it's a sad, cause there was once big
monopolies and bright people backing the effort, and now they are all
busy doing something else that i don't know about - sad for me,
perhaps great for them :P

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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
I think (hope) this is sarcasm.

On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 6:35 AM Aram Hăvărneanu  wrote:

> Steve and Richard,
> 
> You are a bunch of hypocrites. Bitter old men.
> 
> --
> Aram Hăvărneanu

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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Lucio De Re
On 11/23/19, Aram Hăvărneanu  wrote:
> Steve and Richard,
>
> You are a bunch of hypocrites. Bitter old men.
>
Not hypocrites, not bitter. Old, maybe.  Nor am I.

One day, Aram, you'll be at the receiving end of criticism or even
ridicule. There is no doubt that you are brilliant, and so are many
9front supporter. But that is just not enough.

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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
Steve and Richard,

You are a bunch of hypocrites. Bitter old men.

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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Steven Stallion
On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 3:30 AM Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> Grow up.

Indeed. It's interesting that folks from 9front like to tout their
development as "open" using tools that others in the community have
developed in addition to their own. To wit, you seem to have gotten
along quite nicely using the porting work I did for Mercurial in 2012.

The Plan 9 community is certainly fragmented, but there are still a
number of people that are willing to share their knowledge and work
with others and it benefits no one to cast aspersions.

(FWIW, I found this response especially entertaining after visiting
code.9front.org; "Just Send the Money" indeed.)

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Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-23 Thread Richard Miller
> nobody takes any of it seriously because none of them really use
> plan 9 to do anything people use computers to do

Ummm, what?

Four instances of universal quantification ("nobody", "any of it",
"none of them", "anything") in a sentence which is not even logically
self-consistent.

Never mind, I think I can just about see the gist of what you're
trying to get across.  It's meant to be insulting, right?

Grow up.


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