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

[Neil Rieck]

On Mar 27, 9:39 am, BillPedersen <peder... at ccsscorp.com> 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.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill.
>
> Bill Pedersen
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I really want to take a look at AXIS/C about a year ago but was much
too busy to attempt my own port so I went with gSOAP. I was really
surprised at the quality of the gSOAP port done by two HP employees
(Brett Cameron and John Apps). They proved to me that OpenVMS
engineers can still the young whippersnappers a thing or two.

So if I were you, I'd first try to get gSOAP moved to the Open Source
area at HP's OpenVMS site. (of course, someone at HP would then be
tasked with officially supporting it)

But to answer your original question, anything you can port to OpenVMS
to keep this OS useful would be appreciated by all. In my own case, it
is HP's version of the Apache web server that has kept VMS alive (and
a paid-up annual VMS support contract with HP). We would have been
forced to another platform if not for Apache.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/OpenVMS.html