[Info-vax] Autogen

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <p5sq7l$42j$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> 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.

I definitely see where you are coming from, and actually enjoy iPad 
updates.

On the other hand, I have a ragamuffin cluster of various bits and 
pieces built originally between 1995 and 2003 or so (and before that had 
a couple of VAXes in a mixed-architecture cluster going back to the late 
1980s).  I have a shared-everything cluster, am using HBVS, etc.  And it 
just works and is essentially maintenance-free.