Might be a silly question but do we have to use THEIR build system? In its entirety?
Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, Date: 07/05/2013 08:06 AM Subject: Re: What programmer's fear (not IBM specific) Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> On 5/07/2013 2:56 PM, Martin Packer wrote: > If that's true in Another World I wonder what it'd take to make it true in > THIS one. For a start somebody to port OOREXX to z/OS. That's not going to happen until somebody first ports a recent version of GNU autotools. That's not going to happen until at least z/OS 2.10 when the new GNU extended streams API is available. We may be waiting a while... The EBCDIC stuff in OOREXX is mostly complete. I did that years ago. I bailed when it became clear that fixing the build system was an intractable problem. > Cheers, Martin > > Martin Packer, > zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, > Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM > > +44-7802-245-584 > > email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com > > Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker > Blog: > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker > > > > From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <shmuel+...@patriot.net> > To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, > Date: 07/05/2013 12:25 AM > Subject: Re: What programmer's fear (not IBM specific) > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> > > > > In > <b870629719727b4ba82a6c06a31c291239e0fad...@hqmailsvr01.voltage.com>, > on 07/04/2013 > at 05:54 AM, Phil Smith <p...@voltage.com> said: > >> In an alternate universe, Rexx had the equivalent of CPAN created by >> the community, and we all use it instead...and are much happier. > In an alternate universe the standard REXX for CMS and TSO is OREXX > with full block structuring, ranges, regexen and some control > structures stolen from Icon and Perl. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
