[Info-vax] Open Source on OpenVMS Conference Call

[John E. Malmberg]

On 8/8/2012 1:35 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2012-08-08 18:15:20 +0000, BillPedersen said:
>
>> 9 August 2012 OpenVMS Engineering Conference Call Agenda available for
>> review and comment. http://bit.ly/JKASZn
>
> One option for continuing with PCSI is a so-called platform kit:
> <http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/732final/5952/5952pro_004.html>

While I did not mention that specifically, that is exactly what I have 
in mind.

> That'll make it easier to build (and patch) specific parts of the whole
> kit without rebuilding the whole kit,  and it'll also avoid filename
> conflicts, except for those cases where a single package has duplicated
> filenames.  (And this being open source, there's a good chance that'll
> arise somewhere.)

I have already seen it in at least one single package.  That is how I 
found out about it.  I forget which one to give as an example.

Basically building a PCSI kit for an open source project is more of a 
challenge than it should be.  It should be possible to write a program 
to that scans a staging directory and some simple input parameters and 
then build the kits.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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