[Info-vax] Is GNV a VSI or external project ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/23/2024 1:37 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-12-23, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 12/23/2024 8:12 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> Just got an end of the year update from VSI, which was pretty routine
>>> apart from one item.
>>>
>>> VSI are talking about releasing a new version of GNV but I thought this
>>> had long since become an external project hosted at SourceForge.
>>>
>>> I checked the VSI website and they appear to have a single download of
>>> the base kit, but only for Itanium, and which is located at:
>>>
>>> https://vmssoftware.com/products/gnv/
>>>
>>> So, is GNV a VSI or external project these days ?
>>
>> If you look at the installation link, then it points
>> to SourceForge, so it seems most likely that VSI takes
>> the SF code and make an official VSI version of that.
> 
> Interesting, but it doesn't explain why VSI are talking about creating
> a new GNV version based on customer requests instead of just packaging
> the SF version. I wonder if VSI are planning to fork the SF work.

Maybe.

Or it is just an accumulation of sub project changes. That they have
been asked to include in the bundle.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnv/

says:

<quote>
For the most up to date version of GNV please download the base GNV kit 
from the FILES section of this project.
...
Once you have GNV installed you MUST then download and install the 
additional kits under FILES for the most up to date copies of the 
utilities,
</quote>

which again may not fit well with all sites.

Interestingly same page says:

<quote>
As of February 2016 this was V3.0.1 and was available for both I64 and 
AXP architectures. VSI has provided a version of GNV 3.0.2 which will 
ONLY install on VSI OpenVMS.
</quote>

Arne