Re: [Number::Format] Release plans

[Bill W. <bi...@wa...>]

On 9/19/06, Darren Chamberlain <dl...@se...> wrote:
> * Bill Ward <bill at wards.net> [2006/09/19 11:34]:
> > I was talking with Jonas on AIM today...  here's the gist:
> >
> > 1. He has a patch ready for
> > https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21382 - that will
> > produce Format.pm version 1.52 when he commits it
>
> Ooops -- I just committed his patch, after he mentioned it in the last
> email.  Since it had been sitting for two weeks, I assumed he wasn't
> able to commit it.

Sounds like it worked out fine since you were both committing the same
patch.  But maybe in the future it would be better to discuss changes
by email before committing them, especially as long as we're still
tying CVS versions to release versions.

> > 3. We will switch the tests to use Test::More and clean up the locale
> > support, since that was written when Perl had really poor locale
> > support and is causing most of the bugs these days.  This will be
> > release 2.0 and will also include any needed API changes and bug
> > fixes.
>
> I started updating the tests. so far I've done format_bytes.t.  It's
> functionally the same as the previous version, just reworked to use
> Test::More.
>
> I'll wait to commit this, though.

Yes.  For now I think it's important that we don't break compatibility
with older versions of Perl that may not have Test::More included.
Jonas is investigating to see what version of Perl first included
Test::More.  We'll use that as the minimum requirement for 2.0,
assuming that is no older than the version (5.6 I think) that
implemented the full locale support.

(The reason locale support is so confusing in N::F is because I wrote
it for an older version of Perl that had very poor locale support.)

--Bill.

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