Add experimental Plan 9 support

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[nvkv]

Hey hey!

I'm the guy with Plan 9 who did run tests, here are results: http://okturing.com/src/10576/body

I'm a bit constrained in time, so I can't dig deeper into the issue, but will try to take a look on weekend.
Thanks a lot for doing this.

[adrg]

Hey hey!

I'm the guy with Plan 9 who did run tests, here are results: http://okturing.com/src/10576/body

I'm a bit constrained in time, so I can't dig deeper into the issue, but will try to take a look on weekend.
Thanks a lot for doing this.

Hi @nvkv. Thank you for testing the PR. The output you posted was very helpful.
Can you pull the latest changes and run the tests again when you get the time?

Also, what do you think about the default paths? I ran a Plan 9 virtual machine and looked around the fs so I could decide on some suitable default paths for the XDG variables (XDG is not supported on Plan 9 so the defaults will always be used probably).
For example, would you keep documents in $home/documents or would you prefer $home/lib/documents?

[nvkv]

Good morning again. Sorry for disappearing for couple of days.
So yeah, tests are green right now.

Also, what do you think about the default paths?

This is truly hard to say because XDG is not a thing in Plan 9 like at all. There is no convention where to store your documents. For example mine are in /n/other. It's totally unpredictable beforehand where people will store their stuff on Plan 9.

I'd rather kept it simple. Everything that is supposed to be config should be in $home/lib, everything that supposed to be application data probably too. And everything that is user handled documents just in $home.

[adrg]

Hi @nvkv

Good morning again. Sorry for disappearing for couple of days.
So yeah, tests are green right now.

Great to hear. Thanks again for testing the PR.

Also, what do you think about the default paths?

This is truly hard to say because XDG is not a thing in Plan 9 like at all. There is no convention where to store your documents. For example mine are in /n/other. It's totally unpredictable beforehand where people will store their stuff on Plan 9.

I'd rather kept it simple. Everything that is supposed to be config should be in $home/lib, everything that supposed to be application data probably too. And everything that is user handled documents just in $home.

Yes, I agree. I'm not a Plan 9 user, so I wanted to get some feedback on the best practices of storing different types of files.
Here's a rundown of the default paths introduced in this PR:

Base directories

• XDG_DATA_HOME (Default location for data files): $home/lib
• XDG_DATA_DIRS (Additional paths to search for data files): [/lib]
• XDG_CONFIG_HOME (Default location for config files): $home/lib
• XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Additional paths to search for config files): [/lib]
• XDG_CACHE_HOME (Default location for cache files): $home/lib/cache
• XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (Default location for runtime files): /tmp
• XDG_STATE_HOME (Non-standard even in Linux, default location for highly volatile data files): $home/lib/state

User directories

• XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR: $home/documents
• XDG_MUSIC_DIR: $home/music
• XDG_PICTURES_DIR: $home/pictures
• XDG_VIDEOS_DIR: $home/videos
• XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR: $home/downloads
• XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR: $home/templates
• XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR: $home/public
• XDG_DESKTOP_DIR (Not sure about this one. Is there a desktop path in Plan 9?): $home/desktop

Other non-standard paths

• Application directories (Search paths for binaries): [$home/bin, /bin]
• Font directories (Search paths for fonts): [$home/lib/font, /lib/font]

Please let me know if you think there's a more suitable location for any of the paths I listed above.

[nvkv]

I think it's safe to merge as it is right now. Since there is little to no software relying on XDG which runs on Plan 9 you can do anything right now. If some day it will become a problem it can be fixed quite easily.

And yeah, ther is no desktop on Plan 9, my proposal is to just use $home/ as "desktop".

[adrg]

I think it's safe to merge as it is right now. Since there is little to no software relying on XDG which runs on Plan 9 you can do anything right now. If some day it will become a problem it can be fixed quite easily.

And yeah, ther is no desktop on Plan 9, my proposal is to just use $home/ as "desktop".

Yeah, some/most of them can be changed later, if necessary. Thank you again for your help.