On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:39:29PM -0500, Rayson Ho wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:22 AM, David Fetter wrote: > > * Shell access from several accounts > > * Git or cvs client > > * Compiler tools > > * Perl of a fairly recent vintage > > * Outbound http access > > I had access to the HP testdrive before they closed it down (the > Unix servers were down in Sept 08, but the VMS cluster was running > till Jan 2010). They blocked all outbound internet access to the > testdrive servers -- only telnet and ftp were allowed.
Outbound http access is for the buildfarm, which is pretty important to how we develop. > Count me in for the OpenVMS porting effort (but I guess I will apply > for an account seperately as I might port other things to OpenVMS in > the future). I believe the porting effort is larger than a new Unix > port but smaller than the Windows port, as most of the Unix and > POSIX functions and system calls are supported on OpenVMS. You clearly know vastly more than I do about this, and should lead this effort :) > Lastly, are we going to support ODS-2 disks?? And are we going to > require GNV installed for building and running PostgreSQL on > OpenVMS?? You tell us :) Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
