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From:
Ricardo Signes
Date:
February 19, 2014 12:53
Subject:
Re: EBCDIC support is on the chopping block
Message ID:
20140219125255.GA8843@cancer.codesimply.com
* "Konovalov, Vadim" <Vadim.Konovalov@emc.com> [2014-02-19T04:41:31]
> Although the person haven't shared  files yet, I would ask for the EBCDIC 
> basement to be there for another year or a half+, 

I said "pull the plug early in 5.21," so that gets us until, say, June.

> I will put my own efforts there too - I have 2 spare weeks on March, so I will 
> look closer into z/OS problem at all.

Do you actually have a machine that you can turn into a smoker for regular
reports of the build status, and on which you or some other porter will be able
to address problems?

The EBCDIC problem is not getting it to build once, but being able to smoke and
repair it regularly.

-- 
rjbs
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