[Info-vax] Hobbyist program on The Register

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/12/2024 8:32 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-04-12, mjos_examine <m6502x64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2024-04-11 8:53 p.m., David Goodwin wrote:
>>> how many
>>> people really want to have to setup their OpenVMS instances from scratch
>>> every year?
>>
>> A baseline canned virtual machine for an OS is often how cloud-based
>> Continuous Integration begins each of its passes. Once that baseline VM
>> is running, all the customization, add-ons and unique bits then get
>> applied hands-free by scripts, often laid out by a yml file, or similar
>> mechanism.
> 
> That could be an opportunity for someone to develop, if they get too
> annoyed by having to rebuild their servers every year.
> 
> Hopefully based on JSON proper and not that yaml nonsense however...
> 
> [I dislike yaml with a passion. It's way too fragile and JSON is just
> as easy to read if you layout each JSON element indented on a new line.]

It will be very hard to get the common tool sets ported to VMS,
but it will be totally unrealistic to create VMS specific tool sets.

So it will be ports of existing tool sets. And to large extent
that means YAML. Enjoy. :-)

Arne