Re: Minivend Shipping Quirks (or why this doesn't work in Canada)

[Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>]

At 07:14 AM 6/24/99 , Steve Cockwell wrote:
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>Okay, here is what I found:
>
>1.  As you probably all already know, minivend rounds shipping weights
>up to the next integer.  This is fine in the U.S. where a pound is a
>pound, but in Canada where a Kilogram is 2.2 lbs this makes for really
>heavy CDs :-)  We need a way to specify the decimal place to round on. 
>For some shipping methods it would be convenient to have 0.1kg
>boundaries, for others, 0.5 and so on.  Maybe there is already a way to
>do this that's not in the docs?
>
>2.  In the shipping tables, 1.0 != 1.  That is to say, if you put 1.0 in
>the first column of your shipping table (UPS-Style lookups), instead of
>"1" you will get:
>
>Note: Zero cost returned for mode cprp, geo code T2L. No match found for
>mode 'cprpm', quantity
>  '0.5', returning 0. Zero cost returned for mode cprp, geo code T2L. No
>match found for mode 'cprpm',
>  quantity '0.5', returning 0. Zero cost returned for mode cprp, geo
>code T2L. No match found for mode
>  'cprpm', quantity '0.5', returning 0. Zero cost returned for mode
>cprp, geo code T2L. No match found
>                    for mode 'cprpm', quantity '0.5', returning 0.
>
>Don't ask me why the error repeats 3 times, I have no idea.  I'm
>guessing that minivend reads the shipping weight for all of the items in
>the basket as floats, adds them together (as floats) rounds them up,
>converts to ascii, and then does a compare to what's in the table.
>
>That's it for today (unless I find something else)

	Could this be a problem caused by the FractionalItems directive?  It knows
what the "qty" is, why does it round it?  I don't use weight-based
shipping, so I might guess that you have configured something wrong.... as
in, I'd like to see MiniVend complain about weight '0.5' returning 0.  ;-)

>
>Cheers!
>
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