On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:17:05PM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:39:32AM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > But thinking about merging it, I ask myself "Is it binary compatible?" > > and I don't think I can answer this myself. > > Another consideration that has just occured to me (and relevant to 5.9.1 > too), is that I haven't had any feedback yet (good or bad) from EDCDIC > users; since I wrote the code 'blind' to handle that side of things, it > would be nice to know that it works before it gets into the wild.
OK. This makes me wonder whether I wait until a blead snapshot (or the 5.9.1 release) on the assumption that it will be easier to get someone to test EDCDIC from a tarball than by rsyncing. I'm going to did through Jarkko's contact list to see who might be able to test. Nicholas Clark