[Info-vax] New OpenSSL update from HP

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <50550$557ddc5d$5ed4324a$35376 at news.ziggo.nl>, Dirk Munk
<munk at home.nl> writes: 

> Well, WASD contains Apache code, (UN)ZIP has VMS specific functionality 
> etc. So you can take open source code and use that to produce to build a 
> VMS specific version, if that proofs to be  an advantage.

The key point here is that the VMS-specific code in (UN)ZIP is part of 
the official distribution.

> Not as long as the VMS specific version is compatible with the open 
> source version. But with (UN)ZIP for instance we need VMS specific 
> functionality for VMS files.

(UN)ZIP has platform-specific stuff for a huge variety of platforms.  
The main thing is not to fork off, but to keep the changes for a 
particular platform, VMS say, in the main tree.