[Info-vax] Python for OpenVMS VAX

[norm.raphael at metso.com]

info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com wrote on 10/16/2009 02:43:38 PM:

> 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.

Have you attempted to VEST this binary?

>                                                   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.
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