[Info-vax] History of DECSET / CMS

[Andrew Shaw]

On Monday, March 30, 2020 at 10:33:21 AM UTC+11, Andrew Shaw wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I need to educate my colleagues behind the history of CMS which is what all our VMS development processes are built around (no surprise there) - because these processes have gradually morphed and matured over a period of some 20+ years, probably a lot longer.
> 
> I am being asked why we are not using git and as part of my answer I would like to provide some factual background about CMS' robust history.
> 
> I am guessing it started back in the VAX days, or was it even earlier than that?
> Was it always part of DECSET?

Thanks guys, that ties in with my understanding as well.

I have some brand new code I am writing in Python for a utility to run on our VMS environment and it is completely stand-alone from the rest of our app code and so that will be going into Git which is the right answer as far as that utility is concerned.

There is also a "desire" to move all our app code from CMS into Git as well, but we have some challenges around that for not really much gain so I'm not sure that will get much traction. We *could* definitely do it, but I'm not sure we gain too much out of it, but it still could happen.