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

by jandeboevrie on 3/17/2025, 8:11:09 PM with 37 comments

  • by yablak on 3/18/2025, 4:36:41 AM

    It already has a package manager. Emacs.

  • by whartung on 3/17/2025, 11:29:32 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 3/18/2025, 2:25:26 AM

    How many OpenVMS systems are out there in production?

  • by icedchai on 3/18/2025, 1:13:35 AM

    It doesn't support my VAX!

  • by vaxman on 3/19/2025, 12:51:43 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 3/18/2025, 12:47:09 PM

    yay!

    Both openvms users will be ecstatic!

  • by spl757 on 3/18/2025, 5:14:18 AM

    oh my

  • by rat87 on 3/18/2025, 2:25:28 AM

    But the real question is can you add a Firefox ppa? /jk

  • by speed_spread on 3/17/2025, 11:12:51 PM

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