On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > ...support for z/OS, specifically EBCDIC support, is on the chopping block. > So > far, no dedicated resources, human or otherwise, have been provided.
There aren't dedicated resources for any other platform as far as I can tell, so that's a bit of a double standard. "Consistently available" might be a bit more reasonable. > This means that nobody knows exactly whether current perl source compiles and > works on z/OS. Basically, we all know it doesn't, but don't have much proof. > We also pretty much know that it isn't going to get fixed, because nobody has > stepped up to be its champion. What we actually know is that there is at least one successful port of a recent Perl to z/OS by someone willing share but who got bogged down in figuring out how to submit patches: <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg209046.html> That may not amount to someone being a champion, but it's a bit different from "nobody knows."
