[Info-vax] problem with LSE installation

[David Froble]

clairgrant71 at gmail.com wrote:

> A common set of sources is used to build VMS Alpha and VMS Itanium
> and we will be adding x86 support to that code base. We are not
> planning any Alpha releases but any nonarchitecture-specific changes
> will be in both VMS Itanium and VMS x86 releases and we hope there
> will be many of both.

Ok, feet to fire time ....

:-)

So, you have a common code base.  At some time you make changes, or add 
something.  Will the code base then fork?  If not, then it seems your 
only recourse would be to issue something, patches, new version, 
whatever, for all three, and if you wished, and it fit, VAX too.

Assume that the modifications are non-compatable with earlier versions, 
and Alphas could not remain in a cluster without the new stuff ....

What then ?