From: Richard Levitte <[email protected]>
> There is some similar package for Perl, isn't there? Is that very
> much of a pain? [...]
I expect it to be one more thing which many people won't have. I
seem to have a Compaq/HP-sourced v5.8.6 ("Compiled at Mar 6 2008
06:07:12"), and newer stuff is probably available, but a quick search
finds much old stuff. Of course, the tests currently expect perl,
right? (And what I have seems to work.) And "bc", if you want to do
the big-number tests without dragging a non-VMS system into the act.
Hence:
http://antinode.info/dec/sw/bc.html
> I'm behind on things, it seems... there are symlinks in VMS these
> days?
Since V8.3, at least (which is at least seven years old), but V8.4
may have fewer bugs.
> That must have happened while I looked away... did you extract
> the "tar" kit with some other tool than the trusty old VMSTAR, or has
> VMSTAR learned to handle symlinks? I haven't looked at VMSTAR in
> ages, but back when I tinkered with it, it didn't have that
> capability.
Define "trusty old". I adopted VMSTAR about seven years ago, adding
basic symlink support then. It's been better than completely lame (I
claim) since about 2011. That's pretty old, and I tend to trust it.
http://antinode.info/dec/sw/vmstar.html
Zip 3.0 and UnZip 6.00 (and up, also not very new) on VMS can handle
them, too.
> My absolutely first aim with this effort is exactly to not having to
> do the silly update of modules in the DCL scripts any more. The
> information is already there in the Makefiles, there's really no good
> reason why the information should be duplicated like it currently is.
Except that nothing on VMS can use those Makefiles directly. So the
question becomes how to derive anything which _is_ useful on VMS from
the normal source kit. With the auxiliary question being _what_ to
derive (.COM or .MMS, or ???). It's very clear that getting the module
lists from any files which _are_ maintained would be nice, but what to
do with them is less clear (to me).
SMS.
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