[Info-vax] September 6, 2016 - new Roadmap and State of the Port updates now on VSI website

[David Froble]

Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 9/7/16 10:43 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>> On 9/7/2016 7:57 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>> On 9/7/16 1:51 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>>> The fact you are investigating MariaDB _and_ PostgreSQL is nice; but
>>>> seeing Erlang on the list was a _major_ surprise. I wonder what is
>>>> driving that ?
>>>
>>> All three of these ports have been underway since before VSI existed.
>>> PostgreSQL is stalled waiting for fixes to SSIO, so that may be what
>>
>> SSIO isn't something we're looking at now.
>>
>> Yeah, we recognize its importance to the porting community, and
>> we also understand that our priorities won't match up with the
>> needs of everyone.
> 
> That was my understanding and I agree with the priority. While SSIO is
> important for some use cases, they aren't the ones I've run into
> personally. I would rather see a decent pipe() implementation in the CRTL.
> 
> SSIO will likely involve looking at how I/O is done in the CRTL more
> generally and how it could be done better. For example, is $IO_PERFORM
> used where it can be, or is everything still using $QIO or RMS?
> 

I realize the word "porting" has been used above, but the comments about 
capabilities in the C-RTL is disturbing.  Everything should be VMS capabilities, 
which could then be used in C.  And that includes documented as VMS capabilities 
so C-challenged people can also understand and use them.