[Info-vax] OpenVMS Development Annoyances

[Dave Froble]

On 4/24/2019 1:16 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2019-04-24 12:29:44 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
>
>> ...the very latest versions are just growing in size at a huge rate.
>
> This goes well beyond Qt.
>
> The Xcode IDE for macOS is ~6GB compressed.
>
> That's the ~same size as the (compressed) installer for the macOS Mojave
> 10.14 release.
>
> And Xcode has been getting steadily larger.
>
> Tools are getting larger.
>
> So too are the standard libraries.
>
> So too are apps with graphical tools and graphical user interfaces.
>
> I'd rather have a bigger OpenVMS installer than one as primitive as the
> current one.
>
> "Does this product have an authorization key registered and loaded?"
>
> Um, you're a computer. Look it up. Then tell me if I need to deal with it.

Yes, I like that attitude.  However, when I tell the compiler to find 
the variables, why does everyone claim that I should declare all variables?

Hypocrisy I say!  Hypocrisy !!!!


> DECwindows and DECwindows apps support 75 and 100 DPI/PPI resolutions,
> and with images and assets sized to match.
>
> Display resolutions of 300 PPI and higher are now common.
>
> The sizes of the assets for higher-resolution displays will make
> DECwindows and DECwindows apps larger, if DECwindows should get a
> resolution-related upgrade.
>
> ...Some of various reasons installers and tools are getting larger.
>
> Though OpenVMS has been stuck at 2 TiB for far too long, storage devices
> are getting larger, too.  Yeah, yeah, VAFS.
>
>


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