Hey, I've been thinking for the longest time that the VMS building system for VMS needs to be remade from the ground up. Time hasn't been with me, and I've taken a fairly long pause, and I gave up VMS for a while, and... I've got plenty of less valid excuses that I'll keep for myself.
Time to take the bull by the horns, though. Now that VMS seems to get a revival (if you haven't heard the news? have a look here: http://vmssoftware.com/ ...) instead of certain death, it might be time to update ourselves as well. The current build system is based on the assumption that you have a the base VMS installation with only a C compiler added. No MMS, no MMK, no Perl, no nothing. The world doesn't look that way and hasn't for a long time, time to catch up. I've a fork of OpenSSL on github specifically for this, here: https://github.com/levitte/openssl Please join me, let's talk about what's needed, what tools we can expect people to have available (more than just the basic operating system and a C compiler), and what we can do, and make the needed changes. Feel free to fork my github repo, make changes and propose them. (I've cc'd Steven M. Schweda and Zoltan Arpadffy, as they have been fairly vocal as well as deservingly critical, and thereby hopefully interested, but others are free to join as well) Cheers, Richard -- Richard Levitte rich...@levitte.org http://richard.levitte.org/ "Life is a tremendous celebration - and I'm invited!" -- from a friend's blog, translated from Swedish ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
