Upcoming conference call dates AND TIMES:
Thursdays (Eastern US Time):
21 Apr 2022 at 23:00 EDT
19 May 2022 at 08:00 EDT
16 Jun 2022 at 23:00 EDT
The conference calls use JITSI, which does all of the processing through the web browser. We have tested with Firefox, Edge, and Chrome on Windows and Chrome/Chromium on Linux. We do not plan on using video... Although we may share items from desktops... Thanks to Jouk Jansen for providing this facility to our community!
John has provided updates on his progress on gnuLIB Assist library. Discussion of issues seen and ongoing effort as well as how we might move forward with more assistance.
John has had other issues to tend to so not much to report. Has moved to VSI versions of OpenVMS.
Discussions with regards to issues of license status of some of the existing code, pipe for instance, and how we need to address that or attempt to address it.
Discussion of some enhancements that John is looking to include, such as /dev/random.
Bill Pedersen
Have verified that the latest version of SAMBA from VSI STILL supports HPE OpenVMS 8.4 out of the box. Turns out it thought that there was LDAP enabled for the authentication. The server has LDAP but it not actively being used. Found it had configured the authentication to use LDAP, rather than local TDB. Still an open issue with smbclient in this release, although can access via V3.28b smbclient. Working with client to implement custom SMBCLIENT using the library facilities of newest release.
Have ported VSI's open source VGIT2 to OpenVMS 8.4. This is a partial implementation of GIT for OpenVMS. Have been doing some testing of it and working the kinks out of it. Documentation is sparse so working on expanding that as well. I will put together a binary kit when it I have things worked out. As well as load the source and pointers where to get some other packages that are necessary. But it means we have come additional libraries available. libssh2, libcurl, libgit2 and others. Still have to do this.
Have enabled access to my development environments for John and will do so for others if they are interested. It is now running VSI versions of OpenVMS on I64 and X86 with cross development available if necessary in a cluster. Not much progress there.
Discussed trying to get time to start reviews and testing - not much progress.
Discussed need for a small flock of monkeys.
The VMS Software Inc. Open Source kits are available here:
Username: OPENKITS
Password: VSI#14kits --- Case Sensitive
Hostname: vsiftp.vmssoftware.com
IP Address: 104.207.199.163
Protocol : sftp
Please contact sup...@vmssoftware.com if you have issues accessing,
downloading or installing files from the server..
sftp> ls
dr--r----- 1 ECOKITS VSI$GUEST 4096 Oct 26 2016 ALPOPENSOURCE
dr--r----- 1 ECOKITS VSI$GUEST 8704 Apr 19 2016 I64OPENSOURCE
-r--r--r-- 1 OPENKITS VSI$GUEST 706 Jan 29 2019 README.TXT
sftp> cd i64opensource ... change to integrity folder
VSI has also provided web access to some their library of Open Source:
Provided commentary as to some possible ways of addressing some needs in "math" for some of the discussions we were having as to implementation of /dev/random.
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The conference calls use JITSI, which does all of the processing through the web browser. We have tested with Firefox, Edge, and Chrome on Windows and Chrome/Chromium on Linux. We do not plan on using video... Although we may share items from desktops... Thanks to Jouk Jansen for providing this facility to our community!
To attend the conference call: https://gavotte.nano.tudelft.nl:8443/OpenVMS
Attendees:
Audio Recording
The audio recording is here...
John Malmberg
John has provided updates on his progress on gnuLIB Assist library. Discussion of issues seen and ongoing effort as well as how we might move forward with more assistance.
John has had other issues to tend to so not much to report. Has moved to VSI versions of OpenVMS.
Discussions with regards to issues of license status of some of the existing code, pipe for instance, and how we need to address that or attempt to address it.
Discussion of some enhancements that John is looking to include, such as /dev/random.
Bill Pedersen
Discussed need for a small flock of monkeys.
The VMS Software Inc. Open Source kits are available here:
Username: OPENKITS
Password: VSI#14kits --- Case Sensitive
Hostname: vsiftp.vmssoftware.com
IP Address: 104.207.199.163
Protocol : sftp
Please contact sup...@vmssoftware.com if you have issues accessing,
downloading or installing files from the server..
VSI has also provided web access to some their library of Open Source:
https://vmssoftware.com/products/list/?license=Open%20Source
Carl Friedberg
Provided commentary as to some possible ways of addressing some needs in "math" for some of the discussions we were having as to implementation of /dev/random.