On 4 October 2013 12:57, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On 10/3/2013 at 04:22 PM, Gord Tomlin <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: > >> Python is an interesting, and frustrating, case. There have been ports >> to s390, but the custodians of the Python trunk are unwilling to accept >> s390 patches into their code base, and are quite hostile to the >> platform. This situation is regrettable, since there is a wealth of >> tools built with Python. > > Gord, > > When you say they're unwilling to accept s390 patches, do you really mean > they're unwilling to accept patches for z/OS or UNIX System Services? > Because Python has been running on Linux on S/390 and System z for a very > long time now.
It's mostly explicit hostility to EBCDIC (the author actually compared the notion of hard-coding ASCII to hard-coding the notion of 8-bit bytes), but there's also extreme skepticism toward the importance of mainframes in the real world. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
