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RE: Status of CVS on OpenVMS
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RE: Status of CVS on OpenVMS |
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Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:56:20 +0200 |
In a message of Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:34:04 +0200
Received on Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:15:49 +0200
Andreas Lalloo <address@hidden> wrote to <address@hidden>
>
>Hello list!
>
>What is the status regarding support for OpenVMS on client side
>(pserver)? We are running a software shop where we have a range of old
>VMS systems where we basically build source (development mostly done on
>other platforms), with VMS versions ranging from 6.2 to 8.2 (alpha and
>itanium). We even run VAX hardware.
>
>For the newer platforms (7.1 and later) we've run a slightly modified
>version of 1.11.1p1. I am not sure what the modifications are, but I'm
>told some pipe functionality was modified to get it working on 6.X
>systems and those modifications were used on 7.x as well, even if they
>_might_ be unnecessary.
>
>I am curious if there are other users of CVS on OpenVMS, which versions
>they run and if I can get latest source for the 1.11 branch at least and
>compile them out-of-the-box on OpenVMS 7.X or later?
>
I once managed to get a 1.12.5 running on 7.2-1. I'd like to send you a
patch but I can't since cvshome discontinued pserver access. That was
the only access method I could get to work. All the other rsh/ssh
didn't work. I tried rsh with ucx's rsh and fish but to no avail. I
quickly looked at what was necessary to change but it seemed rather
complex to me. There is a small chance I sent a patch to this list -
search the archives - but probably I didn't as it wasn't quite ready.
It certainly has problems with filenames not supported on ODS-2 volumes
although I didn't do a proper check on ODS-5. And cvs up always creates
new versions, even in [.cvs]. So a lot of purge [...] is required.
Michael