Re: Modern copy of GNAT for OpenVMS?

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

Yeah, but there you're talking more about "convention" than lack of
portability. A CLI based Unix app may use things like "-Uxlaksdret" and a
VMS app may be more oriented to "/optimize=time/list=file.lis" and so forth.
But at least the app stands a reasonable chance of compiling and running out
of the box. (Sometimes you'll have differences in how command line
parameters come in when the program is executed, but the "Command/Response"
interaction of the app should be portable, right?)

Compare that scenario to anything that needs to rely on a GUI or perhaps
networking or a database and its got to look more portable. You get
something, but you give something up as well.

MDC
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Larry Kilgallen <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
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> I disagree that CLI applications are portable.  There are plenty of
> Unix-style applications that get ported to VMS and end up being just
> that, an out-of-place application that honors none of the standards
> of the operating system on which it is running.
>
> There is no such thing as a free lunch.