[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Dave Froble]

On 9/13/2021 8:29 AM, chris wrote:
> 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
>
>

That seems to be the problem with building an application by going out 
and pulling in a bunch of apps, tools, and such.  Consider how much 
better a browser might be if it was purpose designed and implemented 
rather than a kluge of pieces from elsewhere.

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