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Re: emacs22 migration to VMS
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Thien-Thi Nguyen |
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Re: emacs22 migration to VMS |
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Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:21:06 -0500 |
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() andrés ramírez <rrandresf@gmail.com>
() Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:46:43 +0000
Is there a link or article about this migration. It should
have been fun.
Last i checked, there was only the unmerged branch (search for
something w/ "vms" or "ttn"). There might be still be some
mention on EmacsWiki.
Gist: the porting job was a paid gig, and when funding ended, i
lost interest. Too, i think there was an official dropping of
VMS as a porting target going on around that time. (Hence the
"unmerged" status.)
IIRC, yes, it was moderately fun. I didn't have a VMS box of my
own, so all development work (including testing w/ X) was done
cross-Atlantic on a real VAX/VMS cluster in Pennsylvania (USA).
(I was living in Italy at the time.) DCL is kind of cool...
If someone were to organize a crowd-funding drive to merge that
branch (and maybe try porting something "this century" :-D), i'd
be happy to hack Emacs for money, again. (You manage, i hack,
we both get paid.) These days, post-Snowden, i would probably
require a local box, though, so keep in mind that's all part of
the "manage" side of things... /me backs away nervously...
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