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

[David Froble]

dgordonatvsi at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.

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

Code quality?  Whups ...

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