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

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Den tisdagen den 27:e mars 2012 kl. 15:39:58 UTC+2 skrev BillPedersen:
> 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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Yes, I'm very interested in a proper ICU 4 port. For some year ago I did a "dirty port" of ICU where I took some of the resulting code generated on a Solaris machine, just enough to create the ICUDAT sharable. It's working for us but hopeless to maintain...

Thanks for the initiative,
Peter