[Info-vax] Layered products, the HP view !?!

[Dirk Munk]

John Reagan wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 5:24:56 PM UTC-4, johnwa... at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>>
>> That would seem like an excellent starting point.
>>
>> And yet... earlier today in this very thread, Paul Anderson wrote this:
>> "Some VSI versions of layered products (CMS for example) also include
>> fixes made by HP since the last product release, but not made available
>> in a released version until now."
>>
>> Nothing i4-related in there, is there????
>
> No, nothing for i4.
>
> Simply the case that some customer reported a bug against a product.  The bug was fixed by HP, a kit was provided to the customer, and the change was checked into the source area.  In some cases, HP did not provide any ECOs for the product that would have rolled up all those fixes.  [Paul isn't here today, but I'm surprised that he said CMS was like that since there have been "recent" ECOs for DECSET.]
>
> In the compiler space, there are ECO kits for COBOL, Fortran, and C++ from HP.  However, I also found a few bug fixes in BASIC and Pascal but there has never been an ECO for either of those compilers.  Those fixes are included in the VSI branded versions since I built from the current sources.
>

I was under the impression that VMS 8.4-1H1 would be nothing else than 
an adaptation to make it possible to run VMS on the i4. But now I 
understand VSI also made small but important bug fixes on all kind of 
layered products. Impressive! Dis you rebuild all layered products, even 
if there were no changes in the sources?

I tried to find a description of the complete 8.4-1H1 release on the VSI 
web site, but alas no luck. Will you be issuing Software Product 
Descriptions? I always liked to read those, simple well structured and 
precise documents. So much better than colourful marketing brochures 
trying to describe a product and failing to do so accurately.