[Info-vax] problem with LSE installation

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <mjbh0s$8ca$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> > 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.

> So, you have a common code base.  At some time you make changes, or add 
> something.  Will the code base then fork?  

That's against the concept of a common code base.

> 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.

Forget VAX.  It's not part of the common code base.

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

Let's be happy that the first release of VMS on x86 will allow an ALPHA 
in the same cluster.  Who cares if ALPHA development stops after 8.X and 
VMS 12.3 on X86 can't run with ALPHA in a cluster.