[Info-vax] report of the last "rendez-vous autour de VMS" (2-FEB-2024)

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 19:53:41 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 4/19/2024 6:13 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:01:17 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>
>>> The bad thing is that some of this can be tricky if the desired
>>> functionality is based on *nix system design and does not really fit
>>> well with VMS system design.
>> 
>> The reality is that *nix (particularly Linux) has become the de-facto
>> standard for an OS layer. Even Microsoft has been forced to accept
>> this, hence the introduction of WSL.
>> 
>> Could VSI come up with a WSL equivalent?
> 
> MS invented WSL to allow developers to build and test Linux applications
> on Windows.

Why did they need to? It was because developers are developing Linux 
applications in preference to Windows ones, and this was a last-ditch 
attempt to keep at least some of that business on Windows.

> VSI has no interest in trying to make developers build and test Linux
> applications their code on VMS.

But you have all this code that already runs on Linux and other *nix, that 
you would like to have on VMS, don’t you? You yourself said above, about 
how “the desired functionality is based on *nix system design and does not 
really fit well with VMS system design”. What else are you supposed to do 
if you want that code on VMS?