[Info-vax] New OpenSSL update from HP

[Dirk Munk]

helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) wrote:
> 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.
>
Oh, I certainly agree with that. I don't want to fork off. If you adapt 
an open source application for VMS, then it should be done again every 
time a new version of that open source software is published. Back to 
the roots so to speak. That doesn't have to be a mayor problem, since 
most of the adaptations will remain almost the same in every new version.