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

[Scott Dorsey]

=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>I have heard about problems getting VMS changes incorporated many times.
>Maybe it has gotten better over time.

A few years ago when OpenSSL ran into some security issues that were the 
result of it having turned into a cobbled-together mess, a concerted effort
was made to clean it up.  One of the first things they did was to drop all
the VMS support stuff in it, because there was nobody to protest.

Now, you want to port that back to VMS and get the same folks that removed
it to put it back into the source tree?  You'll have to make a really good
argument to them.

>I assume some of these people will consider it more relevant to support
>a platform if the platform vendor is asking them than if some random
>person is.

Indeed, although I understand that right now the platform vendor is just
trying to keep its head above water.  I think once we have a solid released
x86 port, a lot more of this sort of thing will start getting addressed.
--scott
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