Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check

[Michal Suchanek]

2008/11/13 Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>:
> Am Donnerstag 13 November 2008 21:13:52 schrieb Michal Suchanek:
>> This would require rewriting most of the Hurd in Lisp to allow
>> carrying around modifications to even more basic services.
>
> Wouldn't it suffice to have your modifications in lisp? You don't need every
> aspect, just the ones you want different from the provided ones.

No, it certainly would not. You do not have

 - the correct and proven lisp bindings for the Hurd API
 - the code off which to base your changes

So it remains a theoretical possibility that nobody would ever use in practice.

Thanks

Michal