Re: Activestate PPMs for DateTime?

2004-11-02 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Not that I'm blaming DateTime; there's plenty of blame to go around. ActiveState is to blame for (as rumor has it) having someone maybe sometime completely rewrite their build scripts, instead of just quickly addressing this deficiency. DateTime

Re: Activestate PPMs for DateTime?

2004-11-02 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:48:19AM -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote: Clearly the easiest for AS is to simple install Module::Build and its dependencies before trying to build PPMs. Agreed. But IIRC it has no non-core dependencies. What's the way forward in all this? I don't know. I do know that

Re: Activestate PPMs for DateTime?

2004-11-02 Thread John Peacock
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Module::Build already has it's own way to tell about dependencies but afaik no one uses it except CPANPLUS. And what is worse is that the Module::Build dependencies are treated as /suggestions/, and will not throw an error if one is not met. I just got a

[OT] Re: Activestate PPMs for DateTime?

2004-11-02 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, John Peacock wrote: Module::Build already has it's own way to tell about dependencies but afaik no one uses it except CPANPLUS. And what is worse is that the Module::Build dependencies are treated as /suggestions/, and will not throw an error if one is not met. I just got a

DateTime::Format::Strptime defaults to UTC

2004-11-02 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I noticed that DateTime::Format::Strptime defaults to returning DateTimes in the UTC time zone. Eg, DateTime::Format::Strptime-new(pattern = '%Y%m%d%H%M%S') -parse_datetime('2004110200') -time_zone-name == 'UTC' This is at odds with DateTime, which defaults to