[Info-vax] VMS porting (again), was: Re: CPython has removed OpenVMS support

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-12-22, Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer) <gerard.calliet at pia-sofer.fr> wrote:
> Le 22/12/2013 10:53, Michael Kraemer a écrit :
>> Craig A. Berry schrieb:
>>
>>> What most open source projects are looking for is the opposite of
>>> "drive-by" porting, or in other words, they frown on what's known as a
>>> "patch bomb," a big set of changes that gets everything working with a
>>> new feature or on a new platform, whereupon the submitter disappears and
>>> leaves the hard work of maintenance to busy people who may be
>>> sympathetic but have no experience with or knowledge of said feature or
>>> platform.
>>
>> Do people still think they can maintain an open source release of VMS?
>>
> yes

I am curious, Gerard.

What is your level of experience with system level programming ?

Do you have any device driver writing experience ?

Do you have any kernel maintainence/development experience ?

Have you ever written a BSP for a RTOS or done any other work to bring
up a operating system on a new platform ?

Have you ever written any compilers or worked on maintaining existing
compilers ?

A person who can honestly answer yes to the above questions would
understand the enormity of what you are proposing.

Your handwaving as well as your tendency to respond with poetic rambling
instead of answering the questions put to you makes me wonder if you have
any experience with any of the above.

You can say something is viable (porting VMS) as much as you like, but that
doesn't mean that what you say has any basis in reality. You would gain
far more credibility if you provided detailed responses to the questions
put to you instead of responding with yet more poetic rambling.

Your continued refusal to provide any detailed responses to those questions
makes me think you haven't got a clue about how to actually port VMS to a
new platform and add the features required by today's operating systems.

Simon.

PS: I'm not normally as blunt as this, but Gerard has been waffling on
about this for a while with his poetic rhetoric, and it's time for him
instead to give us the detailed insights needed to show how it's possible
for us to achieve what he wants.

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