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From:
Dean Hamstead
Date:
September 30, 2021 19:40
Subject:
Re: NetWare/ has been broken since 2009 - it should go
Message ID:
caecc254142d6758dba7c9d2f3a02ce0@fragfest.com.au
This seems related

https://www.os2world.com/cms/index.php/past-news/80-news/software/22838-perl-5-35-0

Which points to an active port maintained by 
https://os2ports.smedley.id.au/

Strangely the page above says 5.35 but links to 5.32

There might be an opportunity here to merge out of tree patches?


Dean

On 2021-09-29 06:15, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org> writes:
> 
>> Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> writes:
>> 
>>> The port in NetWare/ has been broken since 2009 and no-one has 
>>> noticed.
>> 
>> I created a smoke-me branch for removing it a bit over a year go, but
>> got distracted from actually merging it.  I'll rebase and create a PR
>> for it.
> 
> Done: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/19159
> 
> I also have commits removing DOS/DJGPP, AT&T UWIN and OS/2 support that
> were on top of that.  The first two are definitely dead, but there
> appear to be two still (somewhat) active OS/2 forks
> (http://ecomstation.com/ and https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/).
> 
> There exist perl packages for them, but the latest versions I can find
> evidence of are 5.14 (https://os2ports.smedley.id.au/?page_id=180) and
> 5.16 (https://github.com/komh/perl-os2/tree/5.16.0-os2).
> 
> - ilmari

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