Re: VMS identification

[Bruno Haible]

Hi John,

Thanks for the details. We'll rely on that.

> > Please also tell us identification of your environment:
> >    - Is it "VMS"? Or "OpenVMS"?
> 
> The marketing people renamed VMS to OpenVMS at about version 5.5, but 
> many people consider the "Open" to be silent.

OK. In gnulib we should talk about "OpenVMS". Just like we are talking about
Solaris, after it was renamed from SunOS by "the marketing people" of the
respective vendor. The Wikipedia article [1] also carries the title "OpenVMS".

> The __CRTL_VER is probably the most important version setting.  The 
> __VMS_VER setting would be for VMS specific code to implement something 
> that is missing that varies with the version of VMS.

Good point.

> My current efforts are mainly targeting 8.3 and 8.4 for Alpha and Itanium.
> 
> I know of one person trying to rebuild my ports on VMS 8.2 Alpha.

OK, then when we need to conditionalize, please remind us whether we should
use __CRTL_VER >= 80200000 or __CRTL_VER >= 80300000.

Bruno

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS