[Info-vax] VMS Software Releases Roadmap Updates

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-09-28 kl. 22:40, skrev Dave Froble:
> On 9/28/2021 2:53 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2021-09-28 kl. 20:11, skrev Dave Froble:
>>> On 9/28/2021 1:36 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> On 2021-09-27, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think it was the money.  Bill is a bit old fashioned, like me,
>>>>> and just feels the build tools should be native.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You've never done any embedded work have you ? :-)
>>>>
>>>> Simon.
>>>>
>>>
>>> No, I have not.
>>
>> Note that, what Simon calls "embedded" today, it just the same kind
>> of development that was once done for VAXELN. You wrote, compiled
>> and linked your application on one system and then deployed on
>> another system. Your application booted directly without any
>> underlaying operating system.
> 
> Well, if one wants to look at it from this perspective, we don't do any 
> development on customer systems.  Yes, we compile and link there,...

Why on earth do you force your customers to pay for compilers?


> but, we don't really have to do so.  Executables could be moved from
> out development environment to customer systems.

Really?