Upcoming conference call dates AND TIMES:
Thursdays (Eastern US Time):
16 Jun 2022 at 23:00 EDT
21 Jul 2022 at 08:00 EDT
No Call in August
15 Sep 2020 at 08:00 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!
I will be quite honest, neither John nor I have had much energy to apply to the effort we are currently involved with of the past few months. The development of the gnuLIB Assist library which we believe will make porting open source packages to OpenVMS easier. Think of is sort of as a Boost to the technology and framework John introduced a decade ago of using logical name search lists to facilitate having a reference copy of a package which is then overlayed by an "stable" version of the package for OpenVMS and then the development version of the package. That coupled with various helper files recognized by the wrappers that make OpenVMS native code development tools look like open source tools made porting of open source packages more effective.
But we need help.
We need people willing to step forward and do testing.
We need people willing to review code and help make sure it is doing the right thing and be efficient.
We need people willing to provide time for some coding or documentation.
We have had some people show interest in packaging but we still do not have a standard package. Although PCSI kits have become a standard and since that is the default in OpenVMS now for kits I guess we will stick with it. We had at one point considered how to package a development environment, but that sort of went by the wayside due to several issues.
We need people with energy and ideas to help us get back on track and get energized and excited again about this process and this effort.
We hope to see you and others on the calls in the future.
I have not updated the rest of the notes significantly as little has changed.
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.
Bill Pedersen
VSI has OpenSSH in field test for I64 as well as x86-64.
OpenVMS 9.2 is available for testing as well.
Discussed issues of trying to get focus back into project. The pandemic has brought a bit of a fog to many things including our project.
Have verified that the latest version of SAMBA from VSI STILL supports HPE OpenVMS 8.4 out of the box. Working with client to implement custom SMBCLIENT using the library facilities of newest release. Implemented a mechanism to allow phased upgrade for client. Using libraries from SAMBA 4.x but then having V3.0.28a as server.
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:
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
No audio recording this call - short call.
Open Source on OpenVMS Needs HELP
I will be quite honest, neither John nor I have had much energy to apply to the effort we are currently involved with of the past few months. The development of the gnuLIB Assist library which we believe will make porting open source packages to OpenVMS easier. Think of is sort of as a Boost to the technology and framework John introduced a decade ago of using logical name search lists to facilitate having a reference copy of a package which is then overlayed by an "stable" version of the package for OpenVMS and then the development version of the package. That coupled with various helper files recognized by the wrappers that make OpenVMS native code development tools look like open source tools made porting of open source packages more effective.
But we need help.
We need people willing to step forward and do testing.
We need people willing to review code and help make sure it is doing the right thing and be efficient.
We need people willing to provide time for some coding or documentation.
We have had some people show interest in packaging but we still do not have a standard package. Although PCSI kits have become a standard and since that is the default in OpenVMS now for kits I guess we will stick with it. We had at one point considered how to package a development environment, but that sort of went by the wayside due to several issues.
We need people with energy and ideas to help us get back on track and get energized and excited again about this process and this effort.
We hope to see you and others on the calls in the future.
I have not updated the rest of the notes significantly as little has changed.
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.
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
Dave Jones
Has added a new tools as part of his port of SQLite. Via a post to this site under the Files Section...