Re: НА: Fwd: Re: USSP-37: Info Request for Perl Fwd: EBCDIC support is onthe chopping block

[Karl Williamson]

blead contains many fixes for EBCDIC support that aren't in 5.16, such 
as to charclass_invlist.h.  There is no sense in you trying to refix 
these.  The branch khw/ebcdic has even more fixes, mainly to tests to 
make them EBCDIC aware.  Last we tried it we were up to about 92% of 
core tests passing, most of the failures were due to one bug, I believe, 
involving pack/unpack, and to-be-expected porting tests that just need 
to be changed to be skipped on non-ASCII platforms.

This is the branch that ongoing work should start with.  I am willing to 
work with you to get it to really work, but only if we identify a smoker 
for ongoing testing.  Without this, the pumpking has decreed, and I 
fully agree, EBCDIC support will be dropped.  Instead of now working to 
root out the bugs you've found, which are likely already fixed in blead, 
we should be working to get a smoker identified, one with a long-term 
commitment to its continued availability.