[Info-vax] What's up with DECUS HTNotes ?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-05-15 23:16:04 +0000, Robert A. Brooks said:

> On 5/15/2021 5:56 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2021-05-15, <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Not related to original q, but I tried installing htnotes_021b3.zip on
>>> latest VSI OpenVMS V8.4-2L3 on rx2600.
>>> 
>>> $  cc/version
>>> VSI C V7.4-001 on OpenVMS IA64 V8.4-2L3
>>> 
>>> Followed install notes, but I get an error on the last build statement in
>>> the build section
>>> 
>>> $ link/exe=[.client] [.client]ht_client, [.source]ht_client.opt/opt
>>> sys$library:notes$share/share
>>> %ILINK-W-COMPWARN, compilation warnings
>>> shareable image: SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]NOTES$SHARE.EXE;1
> 
>> Also, I'm surprised to see a DEC product shipped with user visible 
>> compiler warnings in the product...
> 
> It was probably freeware at that point; not a saleable product.
> 
> A shareable image should never be built with compiler warnings, even if 
> it's a free product . . .

Notes was pulled into OpenVMS development after its cancellation as a 
product, due to the use of Notes by OpenVMS.

This once I was able to locate the source code, and to also acquire the 
Notes patches that had become available.

One of the other developers took it on at the time and had sorted out 
various issues, though there were other... complications.

This eventually led to the following kits becoming available:

https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v70/notes/
https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v70/notes_ft/

Based solely on the version numbers and the Itanium, that looks like 
the "beta" kit.

And given that's a warning, not an error, either ignore it or patch the 
shareable to remove the there-be-build-errors flag, if it bothers you.

Whether VSI acquired the source code to Notes from then-HP? And if VSI 
did acquire the source code, whether VSI plans to release an updated 
and VSI-branded kit?


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