Re: [guppi-list] gdate library

["Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" <alstrup diku dk>]

> I've just imported the 'gdate' module into CVS. This is a date
> calculations library Jon and I have been working on, which should allow us
> to add a Date type to Goose and thus to Guppi.

Great!

I want to add string and "enumeration-string" types as well, so we probably
need some kind of type-system.

> Before merging into Goose, we need it to work on Win32. glib (which it
> depends on) should already work with Win32. Basically this means we need a
> few #ifdef NATIVE_WIN32 and then do the appropriate thing - the potential
> problems are localtime(), strftime(), and struct tm, I don't know if
> Windows has these or how they behave. strftime() is supposedly ANSI C, but
> localtime() is not. 
> 
> To avoid making Goose depend on glib, we will probably ship the gdate
> stuff and replacements for all the glib typedefs with Goose, then include
> a C++ wrapper around gdate with Goose. configure can check for glib and 
> use it only if it exists. The library is under 10K in size so it is 
> not a big deal to just compile it in to Goose instead of using shared
> libraries.
> 
> Feedback welcomed!

OK, I'll have a look at it tomorrow.

Greets,

Asger