We have run into this with the HL7 standards development organization. It is no longer possible to build new releases of artifacts from some of the older standards because the build process depends on obsolete custom tools which no longer run on modern operating system versions. In theory it might be possible to update the tools, or construct a virtualized build environment, but in practice they don't have enough resources to fight through all the issues.
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We have run into this with the HL7 standards development organization. It is no longer possible to build new releases of artifacts from some of the older standards because the build process depends on obsolete custom tools which no longer run on modern operating system versions. In theory it might be possible to update the tools, or construct a virtualized build environment, but in practice they don't have enough resources to fight through all the issues.