[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/25/2021 8:42 PM, 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”.

Strictly speaking it is a tool to make code reuse easier.

>> 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.

Why?

MS offers that. NuGet for .NET developers and VCPKG for C++ developers.

Arne