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

[Rich Alderson]

Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:

> 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.

This feels like subversion from a large drugstore chain...

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