[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <shng6j$iru$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, chris
<chris-nospam at tridac.net> writes: 

> 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 VajhÞj)
> >>> 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. 

Posix 2.0?  :-)