Re: ANNOUNCE: DateTime 0.13

2003-06-26 Thread Cameron McCormack
Hi Dave. Dave Rolsky wrote: Ugh, my release management skills stink. Hopefully there won't be another release with this many changes at once for a _long_ time (or better yet, never!). I still can't get the ppm to work in Windows: C:\>ppm PPM - Programmer's Package Manager version 3.0.1. Co

RE: ANNOUNCE: DateTime 0.13

2003-06-26 Thread Hill, Ronald
Hi Cameron, > > I still can't get the ppm to work in Windows: > We have not yet build the ppm file as of yet (the new one) I just installed it myself and I need to build it. Ron Hill

Re: ANNOUNCE: DateTime 0.13

2003-06-26 Thread Dave Rolsky
[ moved ot the list ] On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > In the case of DT::C::Egyptian inheritance makes a lot of since. The > Gregorian calendar only needs minor tweaks to function as the Egyptian > one. Why should everyone have to reinvent the entire wheel instead of > sub-classing

Re: ANNOUNCE: DateTime 0.13

2003-06-26 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
> Hmm, this is a problem. I'm really not sure subclassing makes that much > sense here. At the very least, you probably need to provide your own > new() method. The DT constructor is pretty large - not much fun. > I'm really not sure how far (if at all) we should go in trying to make > DateTime

Re: ANNOUNCE: DateTime 0.13

2003-06-26 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > > Hmm, this is a problem. I'm really not sure subclassing makes that much > > sense here. At the very least, you probably need to provide your own > > new() method. > > The DT constructor is pretty large - not much fun. It can be broken up into multi

Re: ANNOUNCE: DateTime 0.13

2003-06-27 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
> It can be broken up into multiple pieces. I certainly don't object to > that. Sounds reasonable. > I'm really not convinced that subclasses should be using DateTime's new() > method. Especially not a subclass for a calendar that has 13 months! Well it worked because I redefined some of the s