Okay, I have renamed the module to DateTime::Format::Common and I am getting ready to check in the rough version I have.
However I have a few questions I want to get resolved first: 1) Will DateTime 0.14 be the first release with locale support? If so, when will you be bumping the version number (do you usually do that just before release?) I need that version of DateTime as a dependency. 2) Can I add the sub _date_parts_order to the locales? I have the patch to generate_from_icu that does this if you want to see it. Longer term questions (these can be resolved after an initial checkin): 3) I think I need to have additional per-locale information (i.e. AD/BC, AM/PM and now, today, and +- infinity). While AD/BC and AM/PM are in the current locale files I don't think they are in a useful form since there are too many permissible variations. So, I propose to per-locale additional information. However, I am not sure if it makes sense to augment the DT::Locale files or to have a separate DT::F::C::Locale tree. It might be wise to allow for additional day and month name variations too. Obviously it should default to the DT::Locale stuff whenever possible. Thoughts? -ben