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

[Craig A. Berry]

On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 8:39:58 AM UTC-5, 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?

If there is ever to be an updated browser on VMS, I'm pretty sure an updated GTK+ is mandatory, so yes, that's important.  Just because the latest roadmap says HP will update SeaMonkey doesn't mean they know what it will take to do it.

With ICU I think the issue was that building it requires a version of GNU make slightly less ancient than the one that ships with GNV.