[Info-vax] PCSI

[Dave Froble]

On 3/6/2020 5:49 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
> Have I mentioned recently that I increasingly dislike PCSI?
>
> No?
>
> It's mostly good for what VSI does with OpenVMS and the VSI LP kits, but
> it's really rather inflexible as installation tools go.
>
> Each of us has to automate the building and kit-versioning and kit
> version display and related baggage when using PCSI, too.
>
> The implementation of product prerequisites has caused VSI and other
> folks problems, too.
>
> There's no grab-all-those-files-and-put-them-here mechanism; no
> wildcards. Each file and each directory has to be specified.
>
> There are other bits of app install and system-configuration baggage
> lurking too, not the least of which is the lack of bundling support for
> apps, and the lack of profile support.
>
> What coordination is available is largely if not entirely by convention,
> and far too fond of everything intermingled.
>
> Rollbacks and patches and database corruptions, too—but then I've
> grumbled about the "fun" involved with products rolling their own
> transactional databases before.
>
> *ponders using VMSINSTAL*

Which works quite well, and if there is a problem and one understands 
DCL can be resolved.

> *ponders pkgsrc port*

So, just what the hell is wrong with COPY ???


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