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rjkroege
Support for Plan 9
To get edwood working in Plan 9, there are some syscall usage that needs to be removed and 9fans.net/go/draw needs to be ported.
I've been slowly working on this.
After #125, Edwood is working pretty well in Plan 9. You need to be using my plan9 branch of 9fans.net/go package. I need to clean up the changes (and remove hacks) before I'll send it upstream.
I can give it a try on 9front if nobody else has.
What's a good way to test the different platforms for regressions? We've tried just making sure it builds with travis on GOOS=plan9 on driusan/dgit and sirnewton01/ghfs but that only checks that the OS-specific modules compile, not that they actually work.
@sirnewton01: I heard that the Go team has a 9front GCE image that they use for running the Go regression tests on Plan9. I'll file a separate issue here for testing on Plan9.
Also: sirnewton01/ghfs is very cool. I'll ask you to have markdown previews via #70 when I get it done. 😊
If anyone want to try out edwood on plan9, this is how you can build it:
go mod edit -replace 9fans.net/go=github.com/fhs/[email protected]
go mod download 9fans.net/go
GOOS=plan9 go build
./edwood
@fhs I should adjust the mod file to point at your branch?
@rjkroege I'm not sure go install will be happy with the replace directive. We can give it a try, but I'd like to see a more official fork of 9fans.net/go (maybe by Harvey devs?).