Status of Perl for OS/2?

[Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz]

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.

[Paul Smedley]

Hi Shmuel,

Post by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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]

Hi/2.

Post by Paul Smedley
Hi Shmuel,

Post by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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.

[Paul Smedley]

Post by KO Myung-Hun
Hi/2.

Post by Paul Smedley
Hi Shmuel,

Post by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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]

Post by Paul Smedley

Post by KO Myung-Hun
Hi/2.

Post by Paul Smedley
Hi Shmuel,

Post by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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

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.

[Marcel Müller]

Post by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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