[Info-vax] DECUServe is a Hobbyist Chapter

[Scott Dorsey]

Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>On 2020-07-04 14:24:09 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
>
>> In article <rdq39n$f4f$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
>> Dorsey) writes:
>>> This is what many linux dialects do.  It's possible to do this easily 
>>> with package management; you can install the parts of the system that 
>>> you want without the parts you don't want without having to manually 
>>> figure out  dependencies.  A day will come when VMS has integrated 
>>> package management, and I suspect it will happen before Windows ever 
>>> does.
>
>Chocolatey is probably the best available Microsoft Windows package 
>manager. Not that I use Windows.

Right, but it is not integrated, and the OS is not modularized and 
installed with the package manager.  Architecturally it probably could
not be.

>Fortran itself is starting to sprout a package manager with fpm, too: 
>https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm

This is a disaster waiting to happen.  Notice how Python has turned into
a hellish mass of library dependencies that are constantly changing?  
--scott


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