[Info-vax] problem with LSE installation

[David Froble]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.
> 

You might not care.  I might not care.  But that doesn't mean there 
isn't some VMS users that might care.