Re:The Unix spirit set free: Plan 9 from Bell Labs (2006) [pdf]
by bulte-rs on Monday June 02, 2014 @07:01AM
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Sad to hear. You - by any chance - don't have any dev experience for plan 9 apps itself do you? Would be interesting to find out how hard 'ui' apps are to build. Incorporating webkit in a 'custom browser' might not be easy; but not undoable.
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Re:The Unix spirit set free: Plan 9 from Bell Labs (2006) [pdf]
by aap_ on Monday June 02, 2014 @07:15AM
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Yes, it's pretty much undoable. You'd have to compile webkit for Plan 9, which requires a C++ compiler, which Plan 9 doesn't have. There are some gcc ports, but I don't know how well they work. There are also probably a ton of dependencies. So a modern webbrowser is not really feasible.