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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-08-13 11:17:00 +0000, John Dallman said:

> In article <hpkfofFab0vU1 at mid.individual.net>, 
> gerard.calliet at pia-sofer.fr (gérard Calliet) wrote:
> 
>> VSI doesn't help encouraging collaboration on Open Source, and thinks 
>> there is not sufficient strength outside that can be usefull,
> 
> The most important thing, by far, in getting open source work to happen 
> on VMS is getting the x86-64 port out and working. With that, people 
> can run VMS on commonplace hardware.

Correct.

VSI OpenVMS x86-64 V9.2 has to be the priority.

Support for common hypervisors and having native boot support for 
common hardware will go some distance toward easing access.

> Emulation is slow and unsatisfying to someone who is new to VMS.

Correct.

Also more hassles with setting up and configuring and troubleshooting 
emulation.

A number of folks have experience with a hypervisor and many of those 
have one available, rather fewer have experience with an emulator.

> Alpha machines are rare and old, and Itanium became a bad joke outside 
> the VMS community.

Correct.

x86-64 and native boot are lowering the "cost of entry", in the MBA-speak.

Further along, tooling including vgit and the VSI IDE and Apache will 
help as those become better integrated and increasingly capable, as 
will compilers that don't require backporting code to C99 or ilk.



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