[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 6:44:16 AM UTC+12, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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.

Or if your development+deployment platform offered integrated package management, so that you could pull in all the necessary build dependencies with a single command like

    apt-get build-dep firefox

It’s called “code reuse”.