Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE #VMCE
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýMe too - I think it is very important for the people who love VM and Rexx but are not inclined to do peacemeal updates of these environments - due to lack of expercience or lack of time. We should try to move it forward and having 'nightlies' available to be able to test interactions of new levels of software are very important.With the BREXX fixes and the work done on EE it is already a very representative and usable environment; I hope someone with the right skills and motivation can take over from Bob. Looking at MVS TK5, it is very successful in that an update can be done which leaves intact the modifications one did to it (adding your own favourite historical userid et cetera) or choose a whole new distribution with the latest and greatest. I hope to see that also for VM/CE. A particular requirement would be to be able to painlessy connect to the new BITNET (HNET) - I know Bob left us a script for that, but personally I never got that to run; did some work with RSCS but apparently not enough. Also, I absolutely love to be able to use and experiment with the old language tools - COBOL, FORTRAN, SNOBOL, ALGOL - would love to see the addition of SIMULA370 and some more. Be able to run BREXX is an absolute dream, and whatever we can do to connect that even more with CMS should be wonderful. best regards, ¸é±ð²Ô¨¦.
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