[Info-vax] Python for OpenVMS VAX

[Chris Allen]

On Oct 13, 3:23 pm, sapienzaf <sapie... at noesys.com> wrote:
> On Oct 13, 5:43 pm, Chris Allen <ca.al... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunantly I can't move to Alpha or Itanium,
> > otherwise I would have already.
>
> May I ask why not?  Is it a cost issue, management inertia, or
> something else?
>
> If you have the source code then I would think porting becomes a very
> good option.

There's a few reasons.  We run quite a bit of legacy software that was
written by an employee who is deceased.  It might be a snap to port
his software to Alpha or IA64 but we don't know.  His programs run
great, and haven't needed any modifications in years.  Also we run a
very ancient source code control tool called CCC (this predates CCC
Harvest), for which we only have a VAX binary of.  My goal as a system
manager here is to get off of CCC entirely, so not being able to run
CCC on the new machine won't be a problem if I can migrate the code
out of it into say Mercurial.  Now that I'm thinking about it it might
not be a big deal to move to Alpha or IA64.