[Info-vax] Query of interest in Open Source on OpenVMS

[Joukj]

BillPedersen wrote:
> I have been approached by someone in the OpenVMS Community who is looking at whether there is interest in seeing some specific Open
 > Source Tools ported to OpenVMS. The specific tools they have 
mentioned are:
> 
> *         GTK+ 2.x or 3.x
> *         AXIS/C libraries
> *         ICU 4.x
> 
> Is there an interest in seeing these tools available?
> 
> I am aware of some earlier work on a couple of these items but do not know the current status so if someone has information there
 > that would be useful as well.
> 
For sure there will be interest for a "working" port of GTK3. I made 
some efforts to get it compiled. Some samples work some fail.
see ie. http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/software2.html#GTK2

It would be very appreciated if you could make a better working version.


                           Jouk