How, absent the consent of the Python developers?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 10:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: strange python announcement 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://secure-web.cisco.com/1qQDLd5M8a9nEp6L7JrimZCesJAib3xlhRaVE0RodAt6pV7HrhbpI8bT6oSD1xssxXLdPfthIdgMFQJFhUq7iTG135AMEvPN9RCdWH-sKOQ9eGUC-3OKmcih-4qRX3Zz2pZT3W-slOf5IXtJ2lZlZD3TYkoidKgF0bYFy8qVlRLuUiNfV66iNHLgBBIcTEOYHdtRjH-AUxXCMbj1kSm_D7P9-UVeQak9dKueKhJh68lotwE6F0wsvqj-oMWQwIBvioJsXIdv17yz3ubD5ll1DocUAu8DiKjskui6XZD5KSch9eiU5aeGIl1ynR2e2yvPU9kZghweOkXyi8J5Yk3LKWfcMrFYJzeKNwYwXhKS10GiLE3Ig45Fomwt6JjkWP-bcd5TiqJ6Pi22NrCzeZUooZwlE3aNetDP_3lvTOjOlaOjQF2gXv-F7zRBEk5orIqKC/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.python.org%2Fdownloads%2Frelease%2Fpython-390a5%2F ... 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://secure-web.cisco.com/1Vqb5gbFCIhRoezVrB4-DfwR36Ua2SWgPCB-yuwRPQ_Wu6FGC-t-Bdw0EDpgggLRJMYgjYt9xSKBnqaFPfoiAtccFQt8COJ3EgGCnGNwcEI4mJlDPWED-0LpPDCoQJNJZBF67PNEseSZloDz1bn8ugg0cUIF5EMMExaiXDhWPwk_3VbGT3pbQmuF7C9EH6hI-89BaAqYXdsCRlOxnq85iORUyRhjaHXZpPyeXIC1ftaQHs7gcvRZ4Jb1aIwSfRCApTu7FnzQzAVdVbjexUG5E-5qHokyfI3vtHOmMRjuAWy_ViWoeLSUh7t2cAtGirXCt2F0iiULqjXvEFxdcl90lnV5ETB6VYzMgC8PZXDny6gtf660pBYMoRQqijgnVQpGaslpSoDazVp52IWda60SJeGuWhiooXXPSTvKPilHkHjDPkKPInBAQLNLZoh6sPMEQUxY_fYdBSSxbl2I3hmE6jQ/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rocketsoftware.com%2Fzos-open-source > >https://secure-web.cisco.com/16wj1xJUKYrekZwm2W6tCGh9FSoMXGzD1L1CSEVCkDZgJzwpEmNW4S8P8ixSjPmxmzLGaLfi3j0I_mTGLX59N_RwvVp3fanExvni76EgWI1lnhEpw-MGy_2swzvivnMUq0FhfadeIoGwHxMqrX_qsyudaPPmck7uebfAZjCaIZmAR3Xo14vPpWDiqso2vH9Asjs-nuVKJZY83lLECKsRANvYrTrdNydPF5KlUFFZCeWTnxMk6cr_YMM_V0vm7z0wX3Zwn87ufM_R2GADOdyp04bQHBgzeHUTLKyHcEUPJ-YhQ0VxbRsnEYufjMNr_GiuGm2bfjnNrCvJeCQhpeDC8eeUZHVyCC17BJjt5qROdqRkpGhxsiINW3rrFRbvmn4P9vhHlCztq-8dfZhmwM2_7seeCMYoa7S6SImPj2OTz5UIe-Z_Tk2JOAf_OUsBhxvptkwQhaFL64LFPqfDXbZm6Iw/https%3A%2F%2Fhub.docker.com%2F_%2Fpython > >Python.org links to Rocket Software from this page: > >https://secure-web.cisco.com/1mJuA-dxEFp0HR8W1B9pgpXPzayAulkeoYkszHGoEKt-filkKWW1BjUgWmpTQ7rFNw1k1efdQhRo9QuFKRWF8MKFTstuG4mEnekX9X9AqraStpdbSSYrpWZF331B4FwFp16LjkOm7g3zLsCPM99HUB5-KKfd2ToUbC3A-VXHkXSqPmcvK6F045DQuTLFNktru9cTTImGiJ7Z-iC9Rv752u1tAg4JxytI931kaab5SrwtPWmmo9CX0mYRJxPb6FH-cB3kfpuf8eKFFUx7WzGnKoyoIG27GapJcRUnl0DYbYvll7Nphm7IFJf81ThdEAwTlNzIRAwPUPyYelK0-aT7DPhfx7v7MMdZeUdhgZPuWu2o2_29wZi9A8JWpgtzgkGyAYL7rG6wnRbZNwZcheoTP4HykqJ8TFpZ_cBKvspLhZVuFk3G-iD5NFu0ZHox4X4fA/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.python.org%2Fdownload%2Fother%2F > >- - - - - - - - - - >Timothy Sipples >I.T. Architect Executive >Digital Asset & Other Industry Solutions >IBM Z & LinuxONE >- - - - - - - - - - >E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
