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Re: FOSDEM and beyond (next stable release of base)
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Richard Frith-Macdonald |
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Re: FOSDEM and beyond (next stable release of base) |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:00:07 +0000 |
On 15 Feb 2010, at 22:27, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 15 Feb 2010, at 20:48, Adam Fedor wrote:
>
>>
>> On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:41 AM, David Chisnall wrote:
>>>
>>> If someone can recommend a library that does these things already, then I'd
>>> suggest that we implement support for the Gregorian calendar (which most of
>>> our users will be using) ourselves and then add optional support for others
>>> if the library is present.
>>>
>> A few months ago, some one mentioned implementing NSCalendar/NSLocale using
>> libicu:
>>
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnustep-dev/2009-06/msg00039.html
>
> Looks like a good plan. The library seems to map very closely to the
> functionality we need (UDate is almost identical, conceptually, to NSDate,
> for example). If David MacLachlan didn't get scared off by the replies last
> time, I'd welcome an implementation using this library. Ideally, I'd like to
> see a stub implementation that only supported the Gregorian calendar and the
> system locale, which we could fall back to for platforms where the extra
> dependency isn't desirable.
I agree ... IIRC the ICU library looked to be licence compatible, and having a
dependency on another external library would not block its use ... but having a
basic fallback for when it's not available would be great.