Re: ANNOUNCE: DateTime 0.13

2003-06-26 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > > Hmm, this is a problem. I'm really not sure subclassing makes that much > > sense here. At the very least, you probably need to provide your own > > new() method. > > The DT constructor is pretty large - not much fun. It can be broken up into multi

Re: ANNOUNCE: DateTime 0.13

2003-06-26 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
> Hmm, this is a problem. I'm really not sure subclassing makes that much > sense here. At the very least, you probably need to provide your own > new() method. The DT constructor is pretty large - not much fun. > I'm really not sure how far (if at all) we should go in trying to make > DateTime

Re: RFC: DateTime::Calendar::RataDie

2003-06-26 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
If I understand where you were going with this you want to distill the RD parts out of DT and DT::Duration. I wouldn't mind seeing this if DT used these base classes itself. As I'm a little concerned about the long term modularity of DT. I doubt this will happen because of all the overhead tha

Re: ANNOUNCE: DateTime 0.13

2003-06-26 Thread Dave Rolsky
[ moved ot the list ] On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > In the case of DT::C::Egyptian inheritance makes a lot of since. The > Gregorian calendar only needs minor tweaks to function as the Egyptian > one. Why should everyone have to reinvent the entire wheel instead of > sub-classing

Re: RFC: DateTime::Calendar::RataDie

2003-06-26 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Flavio S. Glock wrote: > yet another object = slower program At least for DateTime.pm, I think this is enough for me to not use it. Given the fact that the internals work fine now, I don't see a good reason to change them. It seems to me that converting between calendars i

RE: ANNOUNCE: DateTime::TimeZone 0.21

2003-06-26 Thread Hill, Ronald
Hi Dave, [snipped] > > 0.21 2003-06-25 > > - Switched to Module::Build, which should fix the installation > problems caused by very long Makefile lines on some platforms. I just tried on HPUX 10.20 HP's ANSI c compiler and was unable to install the module :( This was due to a dependency

RE: ANNOUNCE: DateTime 0.13

2003-06-26 Thread Hill, Ronald
Hi Cameron, > > I still can't get the ppm to work in Windows: > We have not yet build the ppm file as of yet (the new one) I just installed it myself and I need to build it. Ron Hill

Re: ANNOUNCE: DateTime 0.13

2003-06-26 Thread Cameron McCormack
Hi Dave. Dave Rolsky wrote: Ugh, my release management skills stink. Hopefully there won't be another release with this many changes at once for a _long_ time (or better yet, never!). I still can't get the ppm to work in Windows: C:\>ppm PPM - Programmer's Package Manager version 3.0.1. Co

RFC: DateTime::Calendar::RataDie

2003-06-26 Thread Flavio S. Glock
I was just thinking about this. I'm writing it down, to see if it makes sense... RFC: DateTime::Calendar::RataDie - A common calendar object for conversions to/from different calendars - Replaces the 'rd' value that is now used for this purpose - Internals: day -rd day number secon

RE: ANNOUNCE: DateTime::Format::Strptime 1.0301

2003-06-26 Thread Hill, Ronald
Hi Rick, [snipped] F:\perl_modules\DateTime-Format-Strptime-1.03>nmake test Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 6.00.8168.0 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved. F:\perl\bin\Perl.exe -Mblib -IF:\Perl\lib -IF:\Perl\lib -e "use Test::H verbose); $ver