I have to admit I fell down on this. I was going to post to IBM-MAIN when
this came up last year and I forgot. So, with it right here in front of me,
I am going to post to IBM-MAIN and MVS-OE (which might be a better target list).
Ricardo, I am going to forward your original post from yesterday.
On 2013-02-07 03:51, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
On Wednesday-201302-06 21:35, Ze'ev Atlas wrote:
Unfortunately, I am not that versed in Perl and/or C so I could not
really patch Perl itself. EBCDIC support in PCRE was introduced by
somebody else before I'd touched it. However, it works and Philip
corrected few things that were not up-to-date.
Ricardo, I am tempted to suggest that it would be much easier to adapt
Data-Rx-Type-PCRE-0.003 that you are involved with (or perhaps
re-engine-PCRE-0.17) to work on z/OS and with my adaptation of PCRE for
z/OS. While I ported the PCRE to native z/OS in order to interface it
with good ol' COBOL, it should not be a big deal to adapt that back to
USS (z/OS Unix Services). I would assume that adapting
Data-Rx-Type-PCRE-0.003 should not be a big deal either and they should
be able to work together. That would bring us an up-to-date EBCDIC support.
I am willing to work with you on such a project.
Ze'ev Atlas
I think more than working on a specific RE-related project, what would be
most needed is (as Ricardo says) is regular testing (even just monthly, or
even just quarterly, would be better than the current nothing) of the Perl
5 source code in z/OS: does it compile? And if it doesn't work, report
it back to perl5-porters, and work with them to try to get it working
again. Debugging by email is perfectly feasible.
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