Re: [IBMiOSS] OPS Version Information

I actually get a little defensive about QSYS and ILE sometimes. Like,
why can't we have native i open source stuff?

Well, the question is, what do you want? I wrote Ublu for IBM i. It's
useful, if Ublu is what you want :)

I find generally Ublu easier to use than writing ILE stuff. JTOpen is
fantastic.

I wrote some stuff nearly 20 years ago in ILE/QSYS. It was fun. Not
terribly useful. What's needed?

I did download one nice open source ILE too one time, it was that DDS
source recovery tool.


On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:09 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Jack Woehr
<jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For the most part, in everything I posted,
I was mostly kidding.

I did think you were at least somewhat kidding. I didn't know the
extent. I did know that you were not trying to promote any particular
language at the expense of any others.

Onwards to open source on PASE, however it gets there!

I actually get a little defensive about QSYS and ILE sometimes. Like,
why can't we have native i open source stuff? Why do we have to
conform to Unix and Linux in order to do open source? But there are at
least a couple of ready answers: (1) there are some aspects to Unix's
design which makes it particularly suitable for general-purpose
programming (arguably more so than the i), and (2) pragmatically
speaking, it's easier to go with the flow than fight against it.

And I'm glad to see that there is at least some activity in the QSYS
open source space, even if it's not as rampant as in PASE.

John Y.
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