[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[chris]

On 09/26/21 01:42, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> 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.

On the single windows machine here, we have 5 or 6 verions of the
C runtime library installed, just to support apps. You may have
smart package management on Linux, but with so many dependencies and
contributions from so many places, unusable without it. Not
uncommon to have /usr/lib full of various revisions of the same
library. So, no easy way to get round that...

Chris