* John Goodyear <[email protected]> [2012-03-28T22:12:04] > Under a previous conditional offer that was floated in the late fall, > someone is interested in helping the effort out by providing an environment > for some PERL developers/supporters to use to test more recent releases of > PERL on z/OS.
Sorry for the delayed response. I have been out of town, with very limited internet access. > To make sure they can support the effort, they would like this information: > [ ... ] I can't answer any of this, other than to guess that the disk space will probably be a few hundred megs at the most. A perl tarball, unpacked, is about 75 MB. It gets bigger when you build everything, but not by an order of magnitude. Even a complete git clone is under 300 MB. One or two userids seems sufficient, since we've hardly seen more than that number of people clamoring to help. > How much CPU time would be needed > How often these resources would be actively used > What level(s) of z/OS is required > Anything else that would help us make sure we understand what load > would be placed on a system where we let this run No idea. > Is there still a need for this? Well, basically, there isn't a need. The issue is that once upon a time, perl worked on EBCDIC systems like z/OS, and there was quite a lot of work done to make that so. This fell into disrepair, and right now it won't built. IBM offers, as I recall, a patched 5.8, but there is no way to run a recent perl on z/OS. If nobody shows any intent to fix this, it's going to result in the still-present-but-not-usable EBCDIC code being removed from the core for the sake of maintainability. Once that happens, I think it'll have a slim chance of ever going back in. So, there's only a need for this if folks have an interest in seeing perl work on z/OS and other EBCDIC systems. So far, it seems to me that the general lack of response indicates that nobody much cares. -- rjbs
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