[Info-vax] OpenVMS development tooling (was: Re: VSI strategy for OpenVMS)

[Mark Berryman]

On 9/27/21 9:50 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
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> DECset MMS just isn't worth using for app builds. DECset MMS and much of 
> the rest of DECset was pretty good for its time, but has been ignored 
> for far too long. In that area, MMK has been less buggy than MMS. 

I'm curious as to why you feel this way.  I've been using MMS to build a 
great many things without issue.  MMS also has /Extended_Syntax (which I 
make extensive use of), which still doesn't work right in MMK.

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> Which all reminds me of another longstanding missing dependency that I 
> need to check for, whether zip and unzip are in V9.1...

It is present in the V9.1 ISO but is not automatically copied to the new 
system disk when it is installed.  If I remember right, it is in 
SYS$COMMON:[SYSHLP.UNSUPPORTED] on the ISO.

Mark Berryman