Re: DateTime::Lite

[email protected] (Daisuke Maki)
Newsgroups perl.datetime
Message-ID <[email protected]>
No, for 3 reasons:

1. it's XS
   http://search.cpan.org/src/MSERGEANT/Time-Piece-1.13/Piece.xs

2. it would mean different API
3. as you say, it doesn't do everything DateTime can.

--d

Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Daisuke Maki wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an RFC/request for blessing for a module.
>>
>> So I have this requirement to make DateTime leaner, in terms of speed,
>> load time, and the amount of memory consumed. The target is for casual
>> users, so the use of XS code is not an option either.
>>
> 
> Doesn't Time::Piece (core in 5.10) already fill this niche?  Ok, it 
> doesn't do the locale and timezone stuff but IMO adding it there would 
> make more sense than a DateTime::Lite.
> 
>
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