[Info-vax] To MIME or not to MIME

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-08-04 22:12:59 +0000, Jan-Erik Sderholm said:

> Den 2018-08-04 kl. 22:16, skrev Stephen Hoffman:
> ...If you add some package to a Linux box using the built-in tools, are 
> they still part of the "default config"?

I usually don't need to.   And when I do need to add software, the 
tooling is usually better and the apps and services more current.

The homebrew tooling on macOS is far beyond PCSI, for instance.

Other platforms have equivalent and some quite probably better tooling 
than homebrew, too.

I've previously suggested spending some time on other platforms, beyond 
OpenVMS and Windows.

With installations or operations or app development or whatever.

Whether that's with Linux or BSD or seL4 or Windows Server or macOS or 
otherwise.

Familiarity with different ideas and approaches and tools, and both 
positive and negative experiences, can help with OpenVMS management and 
app development, too.

>> Ah, well...  you utterly neglected... Imagine! Assembler! And Machine 
>> Code!... how DARE you... The horrors!  The omissions!  How could you?
> 
> Why do you feel you need to behive in such a way? It is kind of sad.

🤣😅🤣😂🤗

If there are folks here that seriously think that assembler and machine 
code are reasonable languages for an app intended to connect to remote 
mail servers via TLS, maybe it's time to look at some newer tooling?





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