> From: jhietaniemi@gmail.com On Behalf Of Jarkko Hietaniemi > The response of IBM stinks. > > There should be no 'forks' of open source projects maintained by > vendors. That just leads into pain and suffering. Or at the very > least divergence and obsolescence. I think this is not a big worry: they either stuck their support on that 5.8.x version or maybe repeat the path of perl-kurila: go to valhalla. Either way, this will be unvisible fork for the Perl community There is another approach from their, which is quite unlikely: they could start spending their efforts and resources on improving EBCDIC on perl, but I very much doubt so.Thread Previous | Thread Next