RE: Don't generate EBCDIC non-1047 tables

[email protected] (Thomas DORNER) Thu, 7 Jan 2016 06:07:54 +0000

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POSIX-BC has been solely used on BS2000 machines from Fujitsu/Siemens.  Probably no one is left that is using Perl on those machines.  (Myself last used one almost 8 years ago.)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Williamson [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Mittwoch, 6. Januar 2016 21:40
To: Perl5 Porters <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: RFC: Don't generate EBCDIC non-1047 tables

Perl is supposed to work with code page 047 and POSIX-BC, but we haven't had any reports of such usage in a very long time.

I propose commenting out the code that generates the tables for these two code pages until and if someone actually wants to use them.

The underlying code has changed so that only one place has to change to accomplish this, and to reverse it should the need arise.

By not generating the tables, we speed up some regens when needed, and the disk space used in the distribution is smaller.