On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Slaven_Rezic via RT wrote:
Show quoted text> Since 0.44 it seems that a number of DateTime::Locale methods are
> deprecated. The Changes file lists them, and suggests to replace them,
> but I cannot find any hint what are the new method names to use.
> Eventually I found the %subs mapping in the DateTime/Locale/Base.pm
> source.
>
> That said, why not keep the deprecated methods forever in this mapping,
> without any warnings?
Most of these methods were deprecated because they obscure the differences
between different types of data that's available, and/or they are just
plain wrong.
For example, the old am_pm method takes a DateTime object and returns one
value if the time is before noon, and another if it's after.
Well, for some locales, there may be 3+ "time of day" names that should be
used.
This applies to other things like eras as well.
The deprecated format methods attempt to convert CLDR formats to strftime,
which is simply broken, because CLDR suppors many more specifiers than
strftime.
Basically, the old methods don't jive well with the rich amount of data
provided by CLDR these days.
That said, I'm not running to rip them out any time soon. A patch to use
Package::DeprecationManager would be welcome, and that would make it
easier for you to explicitly disable deprecations for your code.
-dave
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