[Info-vax] Looking to find a way to pull all the Open Source / Freeware folks together

[Jouk Jansen]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> The big problems are:
> * people that are willing to spend the time it takes to port
>   and maintain the port
There are a few people who do this already. Presently they all have 
their own web-sites.Naybe one can start with an inventory of all those 
sites.

> * gettimg the ports into the official source code tree
Sometimes a problem, but in most cases the authors are quite interested 
to include the port. I succeeded in many cases.
> * dependencies on build tools and/or libraries not available for
>   VMS (that is obviously just a startup problem)
> 
> Arne