[Info-vax] Security, support and VMS, was: Re: A new VMS?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-05-04 17:08:51 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:

> There are many things which people see no value in because they have 
> never experienced them.  Of all the things I listed, this one is 
> obviously of tremendous value.

There are many things that people have never experienced, or features 
that a platform lacks, and thus the folks continue using problematic or 
inadequate or higher-effort solutions, yes.

I see little value in logical names, and little value in file versions. 
Not as compared with competing solutions. Though on OpenVMS, that's 
what we're stuck with.

The logical name key-value store could be—for instance—replaced with 
LDAP. And I've long missed modern configuration file support while 
working on OpenVMS.

And file versions paled as our tasks git more complex, and git tougher 
to deal with, so we git other solutions. Yes, that does mean some of us 
developers are mercurial.


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