Status of Perl for OS/2?

Shmuel Metz

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Jun 17, 2013, 12:44:23 PM6/17/13

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The perldelta for 5.18 suggests that if nobody is actively working on
Perl for OS/2 then the Perl developers may drop the OS/2 related code.
I'm currently using Perl 5.10; Perl 5.14 had path rewriter issues and
I'm not aware of a more recent build for OS/2. Is anybody in the OS/2
community working on Perl 5.16 or 5.18, and, if so, have they made
themselves known to the Perl developers?

Thanks.

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Paul Smedley

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Jun 17, 2013, 8:40:22 PM6/17/13

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Hi Shmuel,

On 18/06/13 02:14, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
> The perldelta for 5.18 suggests that if nobody is actively working on
> Perl for OS/2 then the Perl developers may drop the OS/2 related code.
> I'm currently using Perl 5.10; Perl 5.14 had path rewriter issues and
> I'm not aware of a more recent build for OS/2. Is anybody in the OS/2
> community working on Perl 5.16 or 5.18, and, if so, have they made
> themselves known to the Perl developers?

http://smedley.id.au/tmp/perl-5.16.3-os2-20130519.zip

KO Myung-Hun

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Jun 18, 2013, 7:37:13 AM6/18/13

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Hi/2.

This version has corrupted os2ish.h and os2thread.h. They seems to be
just a symbolic link.

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Marcel Müller

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Jun 23, 2013, 12:33:37 PM6/23/13

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On 17.06.13 18.44, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
> The perldelta for 5.18 suggests that if nobody is actively working on
> Perl for OS/2 then the Perl developers may drop the OS/2 related code.

I use Perl regularly, but I am also at 5.10.

Marcel

Paul Smedley

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Jun 29, 2013, 2:31:06 AM6/29/13

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On 18/06/13 21:07, KO Myung-Hun wrote:
> Hi/2.
>
> Paul Smedley wrote:
>> Hi Shmuel,
>>
>> On 18/06/13 02:14, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
>>> The perldelta for 5.18 suggests that if nobody is actively working on
>>> Perl for OS/2 then the Perl developers may drop the OS/2 related code.
>>> I'm currently using Perl 5.10; Perl 5.14 had path rewriter issues and
>>> I'm not aware of a more recent build for OS/2. Is anybody in the OS/2
>>> community working on Perl 5.16 or 5.18, and, if so, have they made
>>> themselves known to the Perl developers?
>>
>> http://smedley.id.au/tmp/perl-5.16.3-os2-20130519.zip
>>
>
> This version has corrupted os2ish.h and os2thread.h. They seems to be
> just a symbolic link.
>

I can zip them up for you if you need them - they are probably unchanged
from Perl 5.14 or 5.10 tho

KO Myung-Hun

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Jul 1, 2013, 9:45:13 AM7/1/13

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It's not just for me. Anyone who tries to compile CPAN modules, will
fails because of this.

It would be better to distribute the fixed build.