[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[chris]

On 09/13/21 13:09, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 9/13/21 5:53 AM, Joukj wrote:
>> John Dallman wrote:
>>> In article <shldvp$1jl$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I doubt, for example, that Libre Office or Firefox will be especially
>>> worthwhile. Current GUI apps are likely to need more than the X11/Motif
>>> stack, and providing Qt looks like a big job. Databases, middleware and
>>> the like might well be more worthwhile.
>>>
>> Qt would be nice, but I see more applications which are based on gtk.
>> I know there exists a port of gtk1, but newer versions are not available.
>> John Malmerg and myself both tried independently to get a newer
>> versing working, but only came to a versions that compiles, but
>> crashes in most cases at run-time.
>> A lot of Debugging is needed. But a good version of gtk+ would realy
>> help to port a lot of nice other tools.
>>
>
>
> That and fork(). :-)
>
> bill
>

VMS will need some sort of unix abstraction layer to make use of all
the Linux and other os open source packages. Done right, it should
make the porting task much easier.

As for Firefox. I tried to build a current version from source to run
under FreeBSD Sparc a couple of years ago, but put it to one side
after a shed load of dependent packages had been built. May revisit,
but it's no easy task at all...

Chris