Dave Rolsky wrote: >I don't think you need auto-downloads. People download a new DT::TZ when >I release one, or they don't. No one's complained about that.
It'll only rarely bite people. That doesn't make it OK. But that's an orthogonal discussion that I don't want to stray into here. >The real question for me is whether the generated binary data will be >cross-platform compatible. Are there any 32/64 bit issues? Endianness? The tzfile format is fully defined: the same binaries apply on any platform. See the DT:TZ:Tzfile code. (You'll see that it uses both 32-bit and 64-bit integer fields, all big-endian.) There's potential difficulty in using extremely far future dates on a 32-bit Perl, but that's inherent to the way DateTime uses RD. No Y2038 problem. >As long as they are cross-platform and the files can be distributed via >CPAN, I think switching to this approach would be fine. OK, I'll work on it. -zefram
