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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/10/2020 11:09 AM, gérard Calliet wrote:
> 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.

> 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).

VSI has limited resources. They have to prioritize.

People can disagree on how they prioritize, but everybody
should be able to agree that they have to prioritize.

And I understand why Ada is not a priority. I believe that
the Ada approach to safe programming is good. But the world
chose a different path many years before VSI was founded.

Arne