On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 14:00:40 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote:
>David Crayford wrote:
>>Almost certainly Rockets port of Python with support offered by IBM and
>>Rocket Software doing L2/L3.
>
>Rocket Software is a member of the open source community. If I had written
>that Statement of Direction I would have phrased it this way:
>
>"IBM intends to enable Python on z/OS together with other open source
>community members."
>
Have whatever changes Rocket made for z/OS been merged into the main
source tree so a contributor might download e.g.:
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390a5/
... and build an experimental version?
>Sometimes certain parts of IBM forget that IBM is among the biggest
>contributors to open source projects. That's unfortunate here; it's an
>important fact. Also, I wouldn't have used that "intends to enable"
>construction. Those points aside, hopefully you get the idea. My views are
>my own, of course.
>
>By the way, you don't have to wait for whatever IBM intends. Rocket
>Software offers Python for z/OS, and you can also run Python programs
>within the z/OS Container Extensions. Here are the links:
>
>https://www.rocketsoftware.com/zos-open-source
>
>https://hub.docker.com/_/python
>
>Python.org links to Rocket Software from this page:
>
>https://www.python.org/download/other/
>
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>Timothy Sipples
>I.T. Architect Executive
>Digital Asset & Other Industry Solutions
>IBM Z & LinuxONE
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