[Info-vax] Open source usage, Was Python and various libraries updated

[gérard Calliet]

Le 10/08/2020 à 03:50, Simon Clubley a écrit :
> On 2020-08-08, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>
>> And open source could be used for some of he truly critical
>> stuff. Linux is becoming very common for SCADA today. And
>> they could use GNAT for software development.
>>
> 
> That reminded me that VSI hasn't said anything recently about the
> possibility of Ada support coming to x86-64 VMS.
> 
> Simon.
> 
Last meeting (UK users group by zoom). Bret Cameron: we have no plans on 
Ada.

Since 2015 I had to rebuild Gnat Ada for Itanium OpenVMS, I didn't get 
any collaboration from VSI (except from individuals).

It is another figure of how VSI thinks about collaborating businesses. 
And by the way it is totally different on the way bug businesses (Red 
Hat) have been built, or on the way the Ada langage itself has been 
saved and transformed in a good business.

And - not because we are alltogether frenchies - I agree with JFP that 
VSI doesn't understand how the open source universe works (and wins).

About Ada itself, yes the way Adacore tries LLVM as a complementary back 
end is a good thing for the future of Ada on x86/OpenVSM. And yes Ada 
(and Spark) on OpenVMS (or "thin OpenVMS") could be promising for SCADA 
and other demanding environments. It's another topic.

Gérard Calliet