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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Why doesn't IBM have any interest in keeping Perl up to date on z/OS? I guess their customers do not demand it. I think IBM all but gave up on the z/OS Unix shell environment in favor of Linux on System z. Karl On 02/21/2014 08:55 AM, David Golden wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Craig A. Berry > <craig.a.berry@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > I'm being nitpicky here, but we *do* have dedicated resources for > at least Linux (e.g. Jenkins build bot) and many other OSes (e.g. > Test::Smoke smokers), depending on how exactly you define > "dedicated". I define that as "not dependent on someone's round > tuits". Andreas' "blead breaks CPAN" smokers would be another > example of what I consider "dedicated" resources. > > But, I also agree that "consistently available" is a better > standard for minimal OS support. For example, Craig is an absolute > hero in my book for finding round tuits to try stuff (and fix > stuff) on VMS with pretty quick turnaround. > > We want "dedicated". We can accept "consistently available". > > David > - -- Karl Nordstrom Storage Systems Group Information Technology Services The Pennsylvania State University (814) 863-1936 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTDQT5AAoJEJ6ApJRfJdbfazUIAKS1ufAJ3sYUXoWlMSmCEMSN 5iFp2emhAFIhVEoaVWxw4K0gNryM6R4IYXVAT0AvV+/xWmenrmAbERuf7deWfr6l C8qduWxJxFBiztqufi/mvmtNthx97UUNtL5Sjqt7bfXqwpzsiIs5IfhxKbp7iMbT QV2eKu4PDTZf2jiKMFCT/6ysydDvaV+rESwO96adN7dCUe3ZaKQHKXE4fEUSo0CK xozuHW/jNebjCgOVcC1hZNsnN7OpR4fm4EIcbzlo22NYUJXb/Wx8jLRXIKUDvQoL u7KVlePHql4lD5zf0IwG+GFdQ7tJhzu+9WYL1eXPSQyZ0/RNI6oGH1Ezmz0K09k= =yPiR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Thread Previous | Thread Next