[Info-vax] Autogen

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-02-12 15:08:00 +0000, Paul Sture said:

> ...This has always been a dodgy area in the VMS patch process...

Correction: This has always been a dodgy area in OpenVMS.  The ADD_ and 
MIN_ and MAX_ and the rest haven't helped things, the app-specific 
settings database isn't documented for use and (outside that database) 
there's no reasonable way to reserve some quota short of tossing it at 
the user and an editor, and which is hardly suitable for reproducible 
and automatable and scaleable deployments.  Some of the patches and 
some of the OpenVMS updates have been adding cruft to the file for 
years, clustering is absurdly complex to configure and manage, etc.    
AUTOGEN is a somewhat-familiar and baroque and arcane artifact of an 
earlier and more heavily-staffed era.




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