On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Tim Bunce wrote: > Er, I may well be missing something as I've not paid attention to this thread, > but why not ship them both in the same distribution? Then some tests in t/*.t > will test DT and some DT::DZ and both DT and DT::TZ being tested will be the > ones in the distribution about to be installed.
Assuming that we continue to pre-generate TZ data based on the Olson DB (which may or may not happen), it makes sense to separate them because the two code bases will change at different speeds. One DT::TZ has a firm API and has been reasonably well debugged, it's likely that we'd only have to make a new release when a new Olson DB is released, which happens a few times a year. The DT module, OTOH, may stay in flux longer than DT::TZ, and is likely to continue to stay immature for a longer period of time, meaning initially it'll have many more releases. Eventually, it may become fairly stable (dead? ;) and only see a release very infrequently. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
