>What will I (and people like me) do when a new version or refresh of CP
>6 is incompatable with CMS 4 (or 5)?
That is very unlikely, fortunately.
>In other words, is there any plans to support CMS 6, at least the part
>of it that's necessary for LISTSERV (that is, no SFS, etc)?
There is no such plan. First, I don't have a CMS6 system to test things
on. Second, there is no documentation on the internals that got changed;
there is instead documentation on the NUCON fields that you are allowed
to use, and the list is extremely short - it does not even include the
field which tells you what release of CMS you are using (and whether or
not the wonderful new CPI calls are available), and QUERY CMSLEVEL can
give you the answer in japanese or urdu if that is the repository you
have loaded. IBM has, basically, said "you have no need to write code
that can work on versions of CMS older than CMS6, and if you try to, we
will not support it; you should never call CMS internal routines, first
you do not need to because by definition CMS is good enough that it is
not necessary, and second with the new CPI you no longer need to anyway".
Finally, I have reached a state of complete, total, utter disillusion
regarding this network where I have decided to stop spending time on
LISTSERV. I will fix problems as they arise when they are easy to fix,
and provide new functions that make my life easier when I feel like it,
but I will stop investing energy in something which brings me little more
than problems and conflicts with politicians - from both borders, it now
seems. I used to have plans of writing a version 2 in a compiled language
and selling it, but it doesn't look like my immigration status in Sweden
will allow me to do this kind of things before a couple years at least,
which basically means it will never happen. I could probably work out an
arrangement with the help of a lawyer and a couple swedish citizens, but
that would require too much energy - I'd get crazy if I had to spend my
spare time on legal bull****. I no longer care, anyway. You have the
sources, you can fix it yourself if you are not happy.
Eric
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