Hi there,
I now agree with Uriel, to abandon the 9base tarball, but with
another impact. I don't think it is a good idea to make wmii
dependent on any original Plan 9 stuff, instead I think it
should be ok to provide and maintain the rc scripts as an extra/
flavor for Plan 9 lovers (those should depend on plan9port in
the future and might also want to use plumber to do the event
loop work).
Thus I ask for someone willing to write sh-scripts again based
on the stuff we have in hg tip under wmii/rc/ (maybe bogon?) and in
wmii/cmd/wm/wmii (it is much moreer stuff than in wmii-2.x or
before, maybe 150LOC of sh code, an experienced sh-lover should
be able to convert it in 1-2 hours).
The rc scripts should go to extra/ which might be shipped in
a wmii-extra-<VERSION>.tar.gz tarball in the future.
The only requirement is, that it is sh and not bash, thus it
should work well with ksh, sh (MacOS™), and bash, which means, only
use the sh subset - like we had it once in wmii-2.
What do you think? I'm convinced that is the better way, to
spread out wmii-3. Additionally I'm willing to support Russ Cox
to push plan9port forward to be included in default
distributions.
PS: Yes, and reinventing wheels is bad.
Regards,
-- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361Received on Fri Feb 24 2006 - 12:11:33 UTC
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