[Info-vax] Open Source on OpenVMS Conference Call

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Wed Aug 8 21:40:27 EDT 2012


On 2012-08-08 23:26:39 +0000, John E. Malmberg said:

> 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.

That's been a longstanding complaint about the PCSI namespace; that 
it's flat.   DECset CMS has the same issue.
And yes, PCSI is more work and more of a tussle than it really should 
be, even for a VMS-native package.


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