* Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> [2013-02-06T18:31:17] > [ This message was also sent to perl-mvs ] > > As was brought up about 18 months ago... > > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.mvs/2011/09/msg1545.html > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.mvs/2012/01/msg1598.html
Now it's been another twelve months. > ...support for z/OS, specifically EBCDIC support, is on the chopping block. > So far, no dedicated resources, human or otherwise, have been provided. We've been talking about dropping EBCDIC unless we get a dedicated resource for smoking perl for two and a half years, initially saying that we were going to drop it after 5.18.0. Despite the great efforts by Karl to make the core tests pass, we seem to have no dedicated EBCDIC testing, nor any prospect of having it. I think this has been long enough. We've gone past my threatened dates a number of times. Unless I've missed some existing promise of testing that simply hasn't been turned on, but is ready to run on a regular schedule with a machine that won't go away without warning, I think it's time to consider the plug pullable in 5.21.early. -- rjbs
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