[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 3:41:46 AM UTC+12, Dave Froble wrote:
>
> On 9/22/2021 4:23 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: 
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>> On Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 6:44:16 AM UTC+12, Dave Froble wrote: 
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>>> 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.

On the contrary, it is precisely to avoid kluges like every app having to include its own copy of a library, that we do it.

You don’t like integrated package management? How very ... Microsoftian.