I surely do NOT have any issue with this becoming part of the distribution - in fact I would
consider it an honor. This was one of the last things I was actively working on before being drawn
in different directions. I had done about all I knew to do to it, but as Mark says: "it can
probably be improved".
Lee
On 5/8/2013 2:54 PM, Mark Miesfeld wrote:
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Oliver Sims <oliver.s...@simsassociates.co.uk
<mailto:oliver.s...@simsassociates.co.uk>> wrote:
DecimalFormat looks really excellent! Puts in commas and trailing zeros
plus lots more.
What's the status of decimalFormat? Can I expect to see it rolled into
ooRexx at some time,
or made generally available? I'd be nice to use it for the Guide.
The DecimalFormat class was started by a committer, Lee Peedin, who was active in RexxLa and the
ooRexx project. Subsequently, for his own personal reasons, he decided to play a less active role
in both RexxLa and the ooRexx project.
Code in the incubator is part of the project, with the same license as any other code. It is
publicly available, open source code. The state of the code is whatever you see. Whether Lee
felt he was done with it or not, I don't know. But, like any software, it can probably be
improved. And, as a committer, it is your privilege to improve it, fix it, or enhance it.
As a committer, you could expect to see it rolled into ooRexx, if you take the imitative and make
the effort to do it.
Rick gave Lee some help at the time Lee was working on it, and I'm sure he expected it to be
rolled into the distribution. As did I. It is similar in some respects to cvsStream.cls and
mime.cls. Both of which were implemented by committers and pushed into the distribution.
You should probably post on the devel list and see if anyone has any objections to including it in
the distribution, as a courtesy. I doubt anyone is going to object. Then you just need to move
the source code out of the incubator into main or main.4.1.fixes. And integrate it into the
distribution packaging.
You can ask questions on the devel for anything you are unsure of how to do. You can then push to
get a release out of the door. Once you finish the steps for that, you can expect to see it in
ooRexx.
As a hint, if you start down this path, I would say you should move the source code into
main.4.1.fixes and main. You are more likely to get a ooRexx 4.1.3 release done than get main
ready for a major release.
The only thing I'd like to see added is an option to treat a number *as if*
it had two decimal
places, so formatting "123456" produces "1,234.56" or $1,234.56". The
rationale for this is
that money amounts are often stored in a database as some number of cents.
The only time
they're expressed as dollars and cents is when they're presented on some
form of user
interface (screen/printout/etc.). So presenting 123456 cents as $1,234.56 needs the
"." to be
inserted in the right place.
If you would like to see something added, then add it. ;-)
--
Mark Miesfeld
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