[Info-vax] link to what is actually being ported to x86?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/6/2019 1:51 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-06-06, gérard Calliet <gerard.calliet at pia-sofer.fr> wrote:
>> One important aspect here is the information. As for VMS it is important
>> to say "there is a clear future for Ada on VMS, and there is now support
>> for it". Because this information inhibit somehow the wrong decisions to
>> go out from VMS.
> 
> But the problem Gerard is that there _isn't_ a clear future for Ada
> on VMS. At the end of next month VSI will have been around for 5 years
> and VSI still don't have a clear answer.
> 
> I _don't_ blame VSI for that one little bit BTW, because, given the
> history of Ada compilers on VMS, they have clearly inherited a very
> difficult situation not of their making.

On top of that then VMS has the problem that lots of people
want XYZ on VMS but very few people are willing to spend time
making XYZ work on VMS.

That put 95+% of the work on VSI.

Sure for many XYZ's the customers may want an official VSI
approved product (most likely that includes Ada!). But my guess
is that VSI would be much more willing to commit to that
if they knew that there were a large community providing
continuously bugfixes and enhancements and that VSI just
needed to test and package.

Arne