[Info-vax] Hobbyist program on The Register

[Dan Cross]

In article <l7su2iFn3sjU1 at mid.individual.net>,
bill  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 4/12/2024 9:13 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 4/12/2024 8:56 AM, bill wrote:
>>> 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.]
>>>
>>> Hmmmmm....  I wonder if this could be done with something like CFEngine?
>> 
>> They probably could. But industry preference seem to be for other
>> tools.
>
>Industry prefers other OSes, too.  Are all the VMS users moving?  :-)

That's orthogonal, though.  This is about something new,
that doesn't yet exist.  If you wanted to automate VMS
setup in a VM environment, why use something moribund like
CFEngine and not the (more popular) alternatives?  It's
not as though there's a lot of prior experience _on VMS_
that would be negated.

	- Dan C.