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

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

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.