[Info-vax] Development Tooling (was: Re: Opportunity for VSI?)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-12-17 00:52:47 +0000, Kerry Main said:

> ...ability to integrate with the source code management system...

Source code control integration is expected with most IDEs.  LSEDIT has 
limited integration, and LSEDIT is not new.

CMS is fine for now, though the best long-term prospect for CMS would 
likely involve migrating the contents of existing CMS libraries to git 
or mercurial repositories and deprecating the CMS package.

If VSI had the budget and the schedule—and they probably don't—then 
replacing it with a shim that replaces the CMS callable API, and with a 
way to issue CMS commands against a git or mercurial library.

Most any IDE vendor on OpenVMS will almost certainly wants deeper 
integration into the existing tool changes, though rather more of that 
will fall out of the llvm work.  eCube would undoubtedly like this, too.

As for integrating with the older environments, I'd question any 
substantial effort involved with retrofitting any IDE into the three 
ghosts of processors past.

As for alternatives—and I wouldn't recommend these on OpenVMS—NetBeans 
has been seen on OpenVMS.  The NetBeans port is now very stale, and 
completely lacks LSP-like llvm compiler integration and related.



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