I have a module, Math::Currency, which tries to be very smart with regard to POSIX locale settings when defining the default currency formatting. However, since I can only test on _my_ systems, I am limited in my ability to guess all of the strange locale settings that may be in use.
Specifically, in order to test that the locale stuff is working, I need to have two different locales installed to switch between. Currently, I am using en_US and en_GB, but obviously that ignores most of the planet. I was hoping to get some suggestion for how I can go about being sensitive about how I do these tests, so that I get as few misleading failures as possible. One thought I had was to test for a series of locales during the Makefile.PL processing, then update the t/test.t file for some combination of the installed locales. The problem I have already identified is that `locale -a` may report erroneous information (partially installed locales), so I am going to have to poke around some more. In particular, I know I am going to have to skip that testing entirely on platforms without any locale support (like CygWin), but I am still going to have some issues where I may only have a single locale fully installed to test. I need something like the opposite of TODO, so that I can have failures but warn that those failures are acceptable with caveats. I really need 'ok', 'not ok', and 'not ok but not to worry too much' so I can handle all the various possibilities. Suggestions gratefully accepted. John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747
