Re: FOSDEM and beyond (next stable release of base)

[David Chisnall]

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.

David

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