[Info-vax] First GNULIB test results on VMS.

[IanD]

On Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 1:12:50 PM UTC+10, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> Most GNU code uses GNULIB to compensate for differences in the C library.
> 
> I recently got GNULIB to build on VMS and run the tests.
> 

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As always, what necessary and useful grass roots work you do

I have a number of questions, some will be viewed as gruff I'm sure, but meh!

1. Is all this great work you are doing being fed back into VSI?
2. Is any of your work being funded by VSI or others? (who pays for those servers you are running etc etc etc?)
3. This is a semi corollary to 1 & 2, Why not ????

What's impressed me about your work around Jenkins is that you obviously are looking towards the big picture for VMS so that through this type of mechanism you are wanting to build a framework so that VMS can have open Source code flowing out as up to date as linux enjoys

If we are going to even have a glimmer of hope in trying to attract young developers to VMS your big picture vision needs to be on-boarded quick smart. How many times I have I seen people try to bring an Open Source product to VMS only to find it hasn't been touched in years and before too long the effort involved is deemed not worth it and they leave

Open Source is not individual code snippets anymore or one of tools - it requires an eco-system focus and that is what I get the feeling you are trying to push VMS open source towards

Thank You for your vision for Open Source for VMS and Thank You for all your efforts