[Info-vax] RMS - Wish list

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-10-18 00:41:11 +0000, Greg Tinkler said:

> That said, what was also raised was the engineering issues VSI are 
> having with SSIO, so my suggestion such as it is, that for a LOT less 
> engineering effort RMS could be cleaned up solve the issues mentioned 
> in the "Open Source and UNIX portability" document.  With benefit to 
> all RMS users.

Mixing SQLite and Rdb in the same database file makes perfect sense, of 
course. 😉  And mixing SQLite and Rdb access into the same files in 
parallel involves more work in both than would "merely" blocking 
incompatible access.

> NB The CRTL was also written decades ago so needs some clean up.

I've long thought wholesale replacement of CTRL with a more modern port 
was in order, moving the current DECCRTL to the margins has happened 
with VAXCRTL an aeon or two ago.  But I suspect the VSI compiler team 
is booked solid for the next decade or so.

RMS also badly needs cleanup, as well as the "fun" that will be 64-bit 
storage addressing support; of adding QBN 🤔 support. If not replaced, 
as has been discussed on several occasions with GFS and VAFS.

Getting tooling such as zip and unzip, SQLite, and maybe PostgreSQL 
into the distro would be nice, of course.



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