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

[RobertsonEricW]

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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Bill,

Just to be clear. What is the end game here with this inquiry? Are we
talking about a one-off port of a particular version of these software
projects' source code which will eventually become obsolete or are we
talking a longer term objective of providing feedback into these open
source projects so that these software projects can be built and
tested on an ongoing basis for OpenVMS?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Eric