[Info-vax] Mozilla Bugzilla proposal in 2011: "Remove OpenVMS support"

[MG]

To complement an earlier and similar thread about SeaMonkey, a few
months ago...

      At Bugzilla, Matthias "Matti" Versen on 16-JUN-2011 at 2:20 PM
      (PDT), wrote:

      "[...] building openvms is broken and there is none who
      maintains it"
      [ref.: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640838>]


So, I guess we won't have to get our hopes up for HP releasing any
other, let alone new, versions for VMS?  The above sure does give
the impression that whoever maintained it (HP?) stopped maintaining
it, or certainly with Mozilla knowing about it.  (But then, I guess
that the HP dream team, over in the subcontinent, is busy enough
already keeping USB and Motif/CDE broken and making sure that iSCSI
and perhaps other features will be scrapped and won't return?)

Tru64 UNIX has about the same version of Firefox available for it
as VMS I64, as far as I can recall.  So the 'live', VMS I64 is about
as 'up-to-date' as an OS neglected, butchered, dying and declared
dead around 2005~'08 (i.e. Tru64 UNIX).  In fact, I wonder if HP-UX
is in the same boat and with its rapidly aging versions of Firefox...
whilst relying on all of those 'trendy' new web-based administrative
tools, like SMH and even marginalizing the traditional CLI "SAM" in
the process.  (You may want to add outdated Java to that as well, or
any Java...)

Anyway, for some naivety: What about community initiatives, anyone
of the existing porters perhaps busy with a Gecko, WebKit or any
other mainstream browser or layout renderer?  (I presume not, but I
guess it can't help to ask.)

  - MG