On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 4:16 AM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote:
> Paul Gilmartin writes: > >I have tried building FOSS with the C compiler ASCII option. It works well > >for "Hello, World" but fails miserably for anything real-world, first > >because lack of ASCII versions of essential libraries such as Curses and > >X11. > > That's an interesting and yet different point. I see two basic solutions to > this different problem: > > 1. As always the case, on any platform, if there's a library you need that > either isn't available at all or isn't available in the form or version > that you'd like, put that library within your project scope and pull it > along for the ride with your application. > This may sound nasty, but you seem to be saying "If you want to use ASCII and X11, then simply implement X11 yourself." Oh, my. How many man years are we talking here? Curses might be a little easier. > > If you think others would benefit from that work, feel free to share it > publicly. You can choose any commercial terms (or none at all) as long as > they're consistent with the library's software license. > That is what Rocket Software has done with their port of some of the GNU utilities. > > 2. Raise a formal requirement with IBM or with the vendor, as applicable, > to see if somebody else will add, modify, or improve the library to meet > your requirements. I'm certainly not opposed to that! To raise formal > requirements with IBM, visit this Web site: > > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Timothy Sipples > IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA > E-Mail: [email protected] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- While a transcendent vocabulary is laudable, one must be eternally careful so that the calculated objective of communication does not become ensconced in obscurity. In other words, eschew obfuscation. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
