[Koha-patches] [PATCH] Adding date format hints to date entry fields (Bug 3089).

[Joe Atzberger]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:59 PM, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:

> Joe Atzberger <joe.atzberger at liblime.com> wrote:
> > [...]  Koha does not have the choice to "accommodate" miscompiled
> dependencies.  Any
> > hack around we make would not be maintainable. [...]
>
> The Koha project had the choice not to adopt the problematic feature
> so late in 3.0 and it would have been as maintainable as Koha had been for
> years


By "problematic feature" here, you mean H:T:P, right?  There only thing
problematic is when it is compiled incorrectly.  The same would be true for
DBI, gd or any of the other XS modules.

I understand from your reply that everything in mainline is working on your
Mac systems now.  But all that's changed is that H:T:P doesn't trust your
bad "i64type" setting anymore.  You could have obtained the same results by
building H:T:P with the correct $Config{"i64type"} at any time.

As a side note, you should beware of recent Apple 10.5 security updates also
breaking perl:

<goog_1241479256343>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/23/apple_perl_breakage_apology/

This is precisely the same kind of problem that Koha cannot solve of
itself.  If it gets fixed, it will be outside the codebase.


> the git tree is public


Do you mean http://serene.ttllp.co.uk/~mjr/koha.git/<http://serene.ttllp.co.uk/%7Emjr/koha.git/>?
 A directory view of the repo is not at all useful for seeing what
patches
you've made.  Please try gitweb.

--joe
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