Nice, being the report-bug link takes you to code.google.com (just filed one the other day with tests). http://code.google.com/p/datetime-format-strptime/issues/detail?id=10
I've created a replacement for it just yesterday actually, DateTimeX::Format::POSIX::Strptime, which is still a developers release. I use the POSIX C bindings per POSIX::strptime() (cpan module not POSIX function). It uses my new framework DateTimeX::Format. It weights in under 50 lines of code. There is one minor issue: I'll probably rewrite ::CLDR too -- CLDR doesn't work with DateTimes that lack dates, and to vastly eliminate code, I pull the local specific conventions from DateTime::Local which stores them as CLDR patterns, and I feed off to DateTime::Format::CLDR (which is kind of bugged). The other options are to write a Strptime in perl, eww, or to use the POSIX way of setlocale() very bad idea. However DateTime::Local::CLDR is preventing me from parsing local-specific time formats (that lack dates) with ::POSIX::Strptime, which is why it is a developer release. If I get a DateTimeX::Format::CLDR, or DateTime::Format::CLDR patched, I'll go ahead and make it production. In the end it just makes another viable alternative to Format::Strptime. On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Steffen Mueller <wyp3rl...@sneakemail.com> wrote: > Hi Greg, hi Rick, > > this somehow slipped through the modu...@perl.org people's nets. I'm CC'ing > the datetime list in case Rick's reading that. > > Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: >> >> I'd like to be given the rights to co-maintain the >> DateTime::Format::Strptime, as it has a number of bugs that are solved >> in rt.cpan.org but have not been applied. I've applied some of these >> locally, but would much prefer to fix it once globally and release a new >> version. >> >> modu...@perl.org: >> >> I've mailed Rick a month ago (December 23, 2008), but had no response. >> Hopefully just a missed email in the holiday craziness. >> >> My CPAN id is TURNSTEP. Thanks to all. > > To me, it seems Rick is still around. He's been maintaining the module for > several years and the last release is from 2008. Greg, have you read > http://cpan.org/modules/04pause.html#takeover ? > > Rick, please let us know how to proceed. > > If anyone knows a working mail address for contacting Rick, please feel free > to forward this. > > Best regards, > Steffen, for the PAUSE admins. > -- Evan Carroll System Lord of the Internets
