[Info-vax] Color me confused (VMS C issues, this time with %zu)

[Craig A. Berry]

On 10/28/16 4:22 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> On Friday, October 28, 2016 at 2:46:19 PM UTC-4, David Froble wrote:
>> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> In article <nuu1p2$ah9$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry"
>>> <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Most of the people maintaining open source software on VMS are using
>>>> hobbyist licenses to do so.
>>>
>>> Right.
>>>
>>>> Which means unless and until VSI is able to
>>>> take over the hobbyist program, the people most likely to be interested
>>>> in the changes John is talking about are least likely to be able to get
>>>> access to them.
>>>
>>> Right.
>>>
>>> Note also that with the current hobbyist programme, patch access is
>>> limited.  It would be nice if VSI changes this or gives people like
>>> Richard, Steven, and other contributors to the VMS community a
>>> non-hobbyist license in return for their huge contributions to getting
>>> open-source stuff to work on VMS over the years.
>>>
>>
>> Note that the people at VSI are VMS enthusiasts.  Unlike HP, they actually care.
>>   While it's not up to me, I have great confidence that they (VSI) will attempt
>> to "do the right thing".
>>
>> But also realize they are busier than the proverbial one armed paper hanger, so,
>> do have some patience.  If it's critical, ask, they may be able to expedite some
>> things.
>

> I have heard some discussions about the Hobbyist program in the
> hallway, but I don't know any details.
>
> We all wear many hats.  I think I have about 5 "top priority" tasks
> (out of a list with about a dozen or more).  I can barely find time
> to come to comp.os.vms to post snarky responses.

Thanks for taking the time to do those :-). Someone snipped the part
where I said I understand that the hobbyist program is number 999 of the
top one thousand priorities at VSI.

But if you want to give your CRTL changes a workout, try building Perl:

<http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.24.0.tar.gz>

Afer untarring:

$ @configure -"Dusedevel" -"Dusevmsdebug" -"des"
$ mmk
$ mmk test

That will run over 2,000 test scripts, many of which exercise the CRTL
considerably.