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After 47 years, OpenVMS gets a package manager (VSP)

by jandeboevrie on 3/17/25, 8:11 PM with 37 comments

  • by yablak on 3/18/25, 4:36 AM

    It already has a package manager. Emacs.
  • by whartung on 3/17/25, 11:29 PM

    I wonder if someone could have ported pkgsrc to it, create a POSIXish compatibility shim library (maybe there already is one), and, I wonder how much of the denizens lingering in the pkgsrc would have ported over “for free”.
  • by raincom on 3/18/25, 2:25 AM

    How many OpenVMS systems are out there in production?
  • by icedchai on 3/18/25, 1:13 AM

    It doesn't support my VAX!
  • by vaxman on 3/19/25, 12:51 PM

    "Translate all custom C, BLISS, FORTRAN and DATATRIEVE applications on this VAX into Golang and reconfigure all custom DCL scripts to run in BASH on Linux. Output the results as a bootable disk image for GB10 processors."
  • by ajsnigrutin on 3/18/25, 12:47 PM

    yay!

    Both openvms users will be ecstatic!

  • by spl757 on 3/18/25, 5:14 AM

    oh my
  • by rat87 on 3/18/25, 2:25 AM

    But the real question is can you add a Firefox ppa? /jk
  • by speed_spread on 3/17/25, 11:12 PM

    Congratulations on the new package manager. But despite its name, OpenVMS is still actually not open.