On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:59:06 -0600, Karl Williamson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perl now will compile and run on z/OS, requiring a couple of > work-arounds to do so. It fails our tests massively, and there are > clearly a number of things wrong. But I believe it is basically working > except for Unicode and /i regular expression matching. John and I are > continuing to plug away at it. > > Many of the tests are written so that no non-ASCII platform could > succeed, so that its failing them badly is not indicative of how well it > really works. Chapeau! Well done both of you. -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.17 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
