Timothy, Here's something that we tried to get started that never took off for organizing a community around this:
http://oss4zos.org As to your specific question, the most important thing by far would be to get up-to-date releases of some of the tools that are required to port other programs. Steve Goetze started work on the "autotools", which are very important and the work to date is in this project: See: http://sourceforge.net/projects/o4z-gnutools/ If anyone would like to help work on the gnu tool ports, please join in. I was thinking that it might be nice to put some feelers out to see if universities like Marist would be interested in some kind of intern program to help work on these. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote: > I put up a blog post asking "What (More) Open Source Software Do You Want > for z/OS?" It's an open invitation to post your wishlist, along with as > much information as you can provide about why particular open source > software is important to you. Please add your comments here: > > http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2009/04/what-more-open-source-software-do-you-want-for-zos.html > > I got the question -- "some people" are very curious -- so I thought I'd > open up the virtual floor and invite everybody who wishes to comment. It's > free to comment.... uh, sorry, no additional charge. :-) > > Thanks. > > - - - - - > Timothy Sipples > IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect > Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific > E-Mail: [email protected] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
