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Re: obseleting VMS ports?
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 06:15:23PM +0100, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 27 May 2002, Richard Kenner wrote:
>
> > I'd like to suggest that all the *-*-vms* targets be obseleted, unless
> > people can provide accurate reports that they have 3.x-series gcc
> > running and working for a particular target, and that they're
> > actually using it.
> >
> > Alpha/VMS is being very heavily worked on by Doug Rupp at ACT. It is
> > working quite well. ACT has a contract with Compaq (now HP) to port
> > GNAT (including GCC) to IA64/VMS.
>
> The VMS documentation (vms.texi, install-old.texi (if the VMS docs in
> there are obsolete, they should be removed, and current VMS install
> documentation put in install.texi), gcc.hlp) has shown little sign of this
> work.
This is an important point. I hope whoever's working on Alpha/VMS and
IA64/VMS could do this soon. If we can get verification of which of the
old vms-specific things are still useful/accurate and which aren't,
that would be good too. If VMS support is 'working well' but isn't in
CVS or isn't documented correctly, then I don't see that it should be
officially supported; if it's in current CVS and is well-documented,
then we should certainly support it.
> Should VAX/VMS be obsoleted as a host or target?
I'd say both: I haven't heard of anyone using GCC on VAX/VMS in a long
time. (Please consider this a request for anyone using GCC 3.1
successfuly on VAX/VMS to speak up.)
--Nathanael