[Info-vax] Modern software development for VMS, was: Re: source control and semantics (Re: Why so much Unix envy?)

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Sun Sep 14 14:20:40 EDT 2014


On 2014-09-14 18:10:00 +0000, Jan-Erik Soderholm said:

> Stephen Hoffman wrote 2014-09-14 20:05:
>> On 2014-09-14 17:58:34 +0000, Jan-Erik Soderholm said:
>> 
>>> But cross-compilers for regular development? I do not think so.
>> 
>> All iOS development is cross-platform.  Most embedded platforms are 
>> cross-platform.  VAX ELN was cross-platform, as well.
>> 
>> I really don't need to be directly connected to the host, if the 
>> necessary tools and services are present and are sufficiently capable 
>> of basic tasks including loading, debugging, logging, and dumping.
> 
> But cross-compilers for regular VMS development? I do not think so.
> 
> I do a lot of Microchip PIC 8-bit programming, but I discuss that on a 
> totaly different mail list.


Classic and fussy cross-compilation mostly command-line stuff from the 
bad old days?  Sure.  I'd agree.   No way.    But if I had something of 
the caliber of and the performance and features of Apple Xcode running 
cross-platform akin to its iOS support, with VMS as the target?    
There'd be little point to logging into the VMS servers for development 
purposes, save for performing tasks such as target testing as the 
end-users might experience — though if the application displays are 
capable of being displayed remotely, even that requirement is reduced — 
or maintenance or related tasks.




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