On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> wrote: > * Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> [2012-01-18T11:43:34] >> Assuming it can, and we can provide a box suitable for login, build, and >> test, who can be counted on to champion these fixes? We'd be looking for >> someone who can: >> >> a. figure out how 5.15.x stands, now >> b. try to make sure it passes its tests >> c. try to figure out where EBCDIC is broken but untested >> d. fix it >> e. run a monthly iteration of testing around each 5.odd.x release
I bet there are about 17 steps in between a and b, but I guess that's the "figure out" part of a. > So far, nobody has expressed his or her burning desire to get access to a z/OS > box and champion a z/OS-and-EBCDIC-portable perl 5. > > I'm posting this followup/reminder just in case the first was missed by an > otherwise eager volunteer, and I won't post another one. And I'm adding a cc to perl-mvs (just like I did back in September) since one thing that earlier thread demonstrated is that while no one on perl5-porters is admitting to knowledge of or access to z/OS, there are people on perl-mvs who are currently running Perl on that platform and would like to see that capability continue even if they can't currently contribute to making it happen themselves. They are the biggest stakeholders in this, after all, though perhaps some of them were satisfied with IBM's answer that if IBM decides a current port is needed, IBM will do it. I'll just note in addition that in the early stages of a renewed porting effort, domain expertise may well be more important than Perl expertise. Getting a build environment set up, flinging the Perl sources at it, examining the broken pieces for clues about what to do next, and so forth, will likely go for several rounds before one gets very deep into Perl's innards. Of course both Perl and z/OS expertise would ultimately be required. > BTW, if you think this sounds great, but aren't big on z/OS a list of other > platforms to be considered for deprecation was mentioned in the > "perl5160delta" > thread. > > -- > rjbs
