[Info-vax] OS specific APIs, was: Re: September 6, 2016 - new Roadmap and State of the Port updates now on VSI website

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-09-10, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
> Personal opinion.
>
> I think that when you implement an environment on top of another environment, 
> then you're no longer really running executables under the lower (not sure what 
> term) environment.  In this case, if special stuff is implemented in C, then by 
> using it you're no longer running on VMS.
>

And what if that special stuff is needed to get code written to run under
another operating system running on VMS as well ?

> I also think that if you're going to claim that you're running executables on 
> VMS, then it should always be VMS services used to do things, not some language 
> specific replacement of a VMS service.
>

So IOW, what you are saying is that any code imported from, say, Unix
should be re-written to use VMS specific APIs instead and that people
should go to the effort of maintaining a seperate VMS version of the
code ?

Also how would you handle new versions of the main code base; would
those same people have to manually import changes in the main version
of the code into the VMS specific version ?

Good luck with that... :-)

Simon.

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