[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[dgordonatvsi at gmail.com]

On Monday, October 3, 2016 at 7:36:22 PM UTC-4, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 10/3/2016 7:02 PM, abrsvc wrote:
> >
> >> Tiny carrot:
> >>
> >> At the boot camp, Clair did say something about looking for a
> >> mechanism that non-VSI folks could potentially contribute to the
> >> VMS code base.
> >>
> >> Nothing beyond that was said, and investing time right now in
> >> sorting it out is not at the top of anyone's to-do list.
> >>
> >> -- -- Rob
> >
> > IIRC this was within the context of opensource software and porting
> > it to OpenVMS.  The emphasis here is to get as much software working
> > with OpenVMS as possible that is already available on other
> > platforms.
>   
> No, it was not said in the context of open source.
> 
> Clair and I had a discussion shortly thereafter regarding the fact that
> we do not sell and/or distribute VMS source listings, making it somewhat
> difficult for an "outsider" to contribute.
> 
> -- 
> 
>                        -- Rob

The source listings are not necessarily required to contribute.  It might not be a project of the same magnitude as LD, for example, but you might have a favorite "personal library" routine to help you navigate the swamp and you might think everyone would love it if only it were made part of LIBRTL.  Or you might have a "better" routine that you use in place of a standard CRTL call (complete with your own feature logicals.)  Maybe you have a little helper program that would be useful to implement as a new lexical function.  

While checkin-ready would be nice, we don't necessarily expect it.  We do expect a certain level of code quality, of course.