[Info-vax] New OpenSSL update from HP

[David Froble]

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.
> 

Bloat ??

JOAT ??