I'm planning to end-of-life DateTime::Locale sometime in the future, in
favor of a new distribution, Locale::CLDR.
This new distro will be designed so that it can provide all the info from
the CLDR project (eventually), rather than just datetime-related pieces.
My plan is to have DateTime use Locale::CLDR directly, rather than
continue maintaining DateTime::Locale.
To that end, I'm wonder how people are using DateTime::Locale. I'm _not_
interested in people only using it via DateTime.pm. That form of usage
will continue to work transparently. You specify a locale for a
DateTime.pm object and you get localized output.
All of the information available from DateTime::Locale will be available
from Locale::CLDR, although the API will be a little different.
In particular, is anyone out there using custom in-house locales at all?
That would be the biggest potential breakage point, since upgrading
DateTime.pm to a version that uses Locale::CLDR will end up making your
custom locales invalid.
I'm planning to support some form of custom locales in Locale::CLDR as
well, of course.
None of this will happen in the very near future. I still need to get
DateTime::Format::Strptime not using DT::Locale first, which is its own
painful project ;)
-dave
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