[Info-vax] Using VMS for a web server

[John Reagan]

On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 4:48:21 PM UTC-4, David Froble wrote:

> 
> While I read where lots of people mention this, I'm not sure I agree. 
> My feeling is, if it''s Unix you want, then get and use Unix.
> 
> Basically, I'm not too interested in porting Unix stuff to VMS.  I'm 
> sure there are people who are interested, but I'm not, and all I'm 
> saying is not everyone is.
> 

I'm in the other boat of course as I'm porting LLVM to OpenVMS.  It uses subversion for source control, uses configure, make, and Python for the build and test.  It uses mixed-cased filenames (which is fine with me).  It came from the Linux/Darwin world and most of the contributors come from there.  I need to be able to track/get changes quickly and efficiently.  I've already got my scars from the C headers (the lack of a handful of definitions AND some just broken feature flags in the decc$types.h header).  Using GNV, I'm making good programs (and no, I'm not going to send my changes to the newsgroup for a code-review).

Making OpenVMS live in a mixed-OS world seems important to me if some customer wants to write an application that runs on all the platforms (although you can make the argument in that case that OpenVMS has little added value).