9base in Fedora?

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 02:35:09PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > Putting them in your path's just going to break things.
> 
> The plan is to have them _prefixed_ in your path, and un-prefixed in a
> specified directory so you can frob the path to run scripts that
> expect p9 utilities.
> 
> I am not sure what this package specifically brings, but many p9
> utilities have *very* interesting ideas.
> 
> I have tested p9 before in VMs and I'll be installing this package
> (when it comes through) to poke around and see.

I don't think 9base provides a great deal - it's just the Plan 9 version 
of the basic Unix shell utilities. If there's interesting and useful 
ideas in them it'd make more sense to work on porting the functionality 
to coreutils.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org