Comment by __patchbit__
6 hours ago
What would it cost to fund swe and design professionals to write a 9front port with a haiku skinjob to hit milestones at 9, 18, 27 month intervals? the incubation period for Macintosh, NeXTSTEP, BeOS, HarmonyOS Next would have estimates.
> What would it cost to fund swe and design professionals to write a 9front port with a haiku skinjob ...
Patches welcome. The community is very small and most everyone involved has jobs. There is also a tendency to only support the most common *useful* hardware instead of Raspberry Pi clone du jor.
As for a haiju skin job, see lola, a new window manager: https://shithub.us/aap/lola/HEAD/info.html I think it has a BeOS theme, if not, likely an easy patch because the dev designed it to be very hackable vs rio.
> ... to hit milestones at 9, 18, 27 month intervals? the incubation period for Macintosh, NeXTSTEP, BeOS, HarmonyOS Next would have estimates.
Not sure what any of this means. 9front is a rolling fork. People submit patches and if useful, are applied. sysupdate(8) is a small script that binds the 9front git repo over root and then runs git/pull. Then you run 'mk install' in /sys/src.
As someone trying to port 9front onto a similar board, I can tell you firsthand that it is not trivial (I actually did that because it was “simpler” than porting Haiku, but then the Haiku folk point blank refused to have anything to do with the precursor build scripts because the README had emoji and I do use Codex, and… it’s a very long story… I decided to not waste tokens on Luddites)
But I will get 9front going, it’s already loading the kernel.
(Ironically, I came here to comment that the review is completely unreadable with the amount of ad inserts - almost one per paragraph!)