Re: VMS support

[Stefan Monnier]

>    What is the situation with the VMS support?  AFAICT, ttn was working
>    on getting it to work again, but I haven't heard anything about this
>    project since.

> Emacs 21.2 was the last known-good port, but that requires out-of-tree
> code due to legal issues (specifically: the author of a big chunk of
> VMS-specific code filed in 1992 a "copyright disclaimer" only, which is
> not equal in force to a "copyright assignment" IIUC, and repeated
> attempts to get the (standard) past/future copyright assignment from him
> (by me and perhaps others) have failed, even though he has indicated in
> 200[45]-ish email that he is willing to do so).  These legal issues
> might still be resolvable (i can try engaging him again), but i cannot
> say for sure.

The only question that I think is really relevant is: is there some hope
that someone will pursue this work (both the copyright assignment issue
and the update of the code to the Emacs-CVS-trunk codebase) in some
foreseeable future.


        Stefan