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Postings from February 2002
Hi everyone. I read a part of the archive of this list sometime ago, having reached this list after desperately searching for a decent date module and writing to Usenet as well. IIRC the founders of this list have said that the list aims, among other things, in putting order to the Perl date chaos. We agree in that there is chaos. I don't know yet if we disagree in something, but I don't recall seeing a proposal on how to tackle this chaos. There's the reefknot project, but that doesn't seem to be anything more in that direction than an attempt to construct some foundation modules. IMHO it doesn't matter if Date::ICal or whatever is good; it might be the world's best date manipulation software. At the point we've reached, with innumerable independent Perl date modules, we need to ensure that whatever work we do will not be classified as just "yet another module". The only way I've thought of getting out of this is to try to contact as many date modules authors as possible and get some consensus on a basic design, work altogether on that, and have the authors deprecate their own original modules. I don't know if this is feasible, or even if it is desirable (personally I desire it). Whether that's the way out of it or not, my question is: are we doing anything besides writing code? Are there any thoughts or ideas on how we'll get to this one or two basic foundation modules?Thread Next