Re: Co-maintainer of DateTime::Format::Strptime

Nice, being the report-bug link takes you to code.google.com (just
filed one the other day with tests).
http://code.google.com/p/datetime-format-strptime/issues/detail?id=10

I've created a replacement for it just yesterday actually,
DateTimeX::Format::POSIX::Strptime, which is still a developers
release. I use the POSIX C bindings per POSIX::strptime() (cpan module
not POSIX function). It uses my new framework DateTimeX::Format. It
weights in under 50 lines of code.

There is one minor issue: I'll probably rewrite ::CLDR too -- CLDR
doesn't work with DateTimes that lack dates, and to vastly eliminate
code, I pull the local specific conventions from DateTime::Local which
stores them as CLDR patterns, and I feed off to DateTime::Format::CLDR
(which is kind of bugged). The other options are to write a Strptime
in perl, eww, or to use the POSIX way of setlocale() very bad idea.

However DateTime::Local::CLDR is preventing me from parsing
local-specific time formats (that lack dates) with ::POSIX::Strptime,
which is why it is a developer release.

If I get a DateTimeX::Format::CLDR, or DateTime::Format::CLDR patched,
I'll go ahead and make it production. In the end it just makes another
viable alternative to Format::Strptime.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Steffen Mueller
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Greg, hi Rick,
>
> this somehow slipped through the [email protected] people's nets. I'm CC'ing
> the datetime list in case Rick's reading that.
>
> Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to be given the rights to co-maintain the
>> DateTime::Format::Strptime, as it has a number of bugs that are solved
>> in rt.cpan.org but have not been applied. I've applied some of these
>> locally, but would much prefer to fix it once globally and release a new
>> version.
>>
>> [email protected]:
>>
>> I've mailed Rick a month ago (December 23, 2008), but had no response.
>> Hopefully just a missed email in the holiday craziness.
>>
>> My CPAN id is TURNSTEP. Thanks to all.
>
> To me, it seems Rick is still around. He's been maintaining the module for
> several years and the last release is from 2008. Greg, have you read
>  http://cpan.org/modules/04pause.html#takeover ?
>
> Rick, please let us know how to proceed.
>
> If anyone knows a working mail address for contacting Rick, please feel free
> to forward this.
>
> Best regards,
> Steffen, for the PAUSE admins.
>



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