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

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-10-06, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:

>
> The more y'all keep trying to avoid changing your application code and 
> avoiding changing the things that are broken, the harder you make it 
> for VSI to fix things, to improve the platform, to work to secure the 
> platform, and to work to address the requirements that new folks can or 
> will have.   I listened to folks at the boot camp try to shut down some 
> proposed cluster-related changes, and without even knowing what those 
> changes might bring them.   Without even knowing what those changes 
> were.    That approach is problematic.
>

It's also very frustrating for those of us who have solid experience in
dragging applications forward to work with the latest incarnations of
compilers, libraries stuff and adapting it to other platform
improvements.  Identifying and removing deprecated stuff is often a
SMOP, not a showstopper.

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 the rest of the day taking it out."  -- Oscar Wilde