My apologies for falling off with the Perl build testing with Karl. I cannot promise that I could continue the work that Karl and I were doing last year.
I think it was towards the end of 2012 that I tried to hook the community up with an environment in which a couple of people could use to build perl on z/OS. At that time, nobody wanted to own the responsibilities of performing the builds. If that has changed, let me know, and I can contact the resource to see if the offer is still on the table. Regards, John Goodyear Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> wrote on 02/18/2014 06:18:51 PM: > From: Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], > Date: 02/18/2014 06:19 PM > Subject: Re: EBCDIC support is on the chopping block > > * 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 thecore 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 > [attachment "signature.asc" deleted by John Goodyear/Gaithersburg/IBM]
