Re: SEU versus vi and Vim

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Jim Oberholtzer
<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

An interesting project would be to see if we could build an ant environment
that would work for IBM i projects. True the source would move to the IFS
but big whoop there, I'll bet with some thought we could do it.

It is absolutely doable, and the source wouldn't even have to move to
the IFS. (I do think things would be simpler if everything were
stream files in arbitrarily nested directories, just because then we
would have a lot more prior art to draw from; but that's not an
absolute requirement.)

I think the main issue, as it almost always is, is simply that it
requires resources to develop. IBM is unwilling to devote the
resources it would take to develop it. (I say this without judgment
of IBM; it's simply a fact.)

John