[Info-vax] Open Source on OpenVMS - A Progress Report

[Tim E. Sneddon]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> BillPedersen wrote:
>> Centralized Repositories:
>>
>> Source Forge seems like the logical place for much of this work.  This
>> is especially true since the main line code trees of many Open Source
>> packages are already resident.  In discussions with folks in OpenVMS
>> Engineering it sounds like this is the way they are leaning.
> 
> In my opinion it would be a big mistake to create separate
> projects for VMS ports.
> 
> VMS support should be integrated into the real projects for
> multi platform open source.

I agree completely.  Most projects have their infrastructure
well established, it is better to build on that rather than
diverge.  This is what I dislike most about the HP ports of
open source.  The Adacore people put their stuff back into
the source tree (although it took a while), that's why there
is now a gas for OpenVMS I64 and Alpha (again).

Tim.