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If anyone has a script they use to pull down, build and test Perl, I can try to adapt it to z/OS. John Goodyear demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote on 02/25/2013 02:31:14 PM: > Subject: Re: [perl #116915] require a "I know EBCDIC is threatened" > switch to Configure > > What we generally need is someone to "smoke-test" Perl regularly and > send us reports of the build process that we can use those to try to > support you. If it involves manual labor to do IMO it will be too time > consuming to be of that much use. > > Yves > > On 25 February 2013 18:22, <CARROS1@nationwide.com> wrote: > > The only issue with Hercules is being licensed to run zOS on it. > > We do run zPDT here and I have zOS 1.13 loaded on it now. > > I can not of course allow outside access to our internal network for others > > to logon. > > but if it is a packaged set that I can run here I'll be happy to run test on > > our PDT system > > > > Sandra > > > > > > > > From: Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> > > To: John Goodyear <johngood@us.ibm.com> > > Cc: perl5-porters@perl.org, perl-mvs@perl.org, Ricardo Signes > > <rjbs@cpan.org> > > Date: 02/25/2013 12:15 PM > > Subject: Re: [perl #116915] require a "I know EBCDIC is threatened" > > switch to Configure > > ________________________________ > > > > > > > > On 02/25/2013 09:36 AM, John Goodyear wrote: > >> I'm just getting started with my efforts on z/OS. > >> > >> It's early, but are my efforts enough to allow you to put away the cleaver > >> ? > >> > > > > I'm optimistic that we can get this working; I'm committed to it, and > > John looks to be to. > > > > The problem is keeping things in working order. We need on-going > > periodic testing to make sure that changes we make don't break EBCDIC. > > I think at least monthly, and preferably weekly, testing of blead would > > be sufficient. > > > > Reini Urban pointed out this link just a couple of days ago: > > http://www.hercules-390.org/ > > a z/OS simulator that runs on, among other things, Linux. If that works > > well enough, it might mean an answer to our testing. > > > > If we do get things working, but can't keep things going, I believe we > > owe it to the future potential users to package it into some sort of > > release. > > > >> > >> Ricardo Signes wrote: > >> > Unless there is a heroic effort to both fix and establish regular > >> smoking for > >> > perl on z/OS, it and EBCDIC support are on the chopping block. We > >> should step > >> > up our announcement of this fact. > >> > >> > Configure should refuse to build on an EBCDIC platform unless a switch > >> is > >> > passed like -DACK_EBCDIC_WARNING > >> > >> > >> John Goodyear > >> > > > > > > > > -- > perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/" >Thread Previous | Thread Next