Re: ISO: The Eiffel OO programming language and IDE, on VMS

On 3/26/25 7:02 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 3/26/2025 1:09 AM, David Meyer wrote:

Is there anything in the VSI licensing that would prevent a community of
VMS and Rust (for example) fans from developing a VMS port of a Rust
compiler and releasing the compiler as open source?

 No.
 VMS users can write or port all the compilers they want to.

One of the following things would have to happen for that to be true:
- VSI produces and makes available an LLVM developer kit
- VSI pushes back upstream everything people would need to develop compilers with LLVM
- People create their own port of LLVM for VMS
As of today, the only way to get LLVM on VMS is to get a compiler
produced by VSI, and those compilers are not going to be
redistributable. I think VSI has expressed an intention to push their
changes back upstream but that hasn't happened yet and they have a
mountain of work to do to get there.