[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

Dave Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Wed Sep 22 11:39:54 EDT 2021


On 9/22/2021 4:23 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> 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”.
>

I really don't care what you call it.  It is still a kluge of pieces 
from elsewhere.  Names don't matter.  Actions do.

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