Re: [Vala] Date and time manipulation

[Raffaele Sandrini <rasa gmx ch>]

On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 15:35 +0200, Heikki Paajanen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> date and time handling part of glib seems not to be available in Vala. Also
> the API available in glib seems to be very "incomplete", comparing with, for
> example, python. Are you planning to write own vala API for that stuff
> instead
> of just offering what is available in glib?
> (I could try writing some example? Any advice?)
You are right that glib offers much less functionality than other
platforms. Its correct that this support must be completed in the glib
vapi. I think some support is allready in there. At least TimeVal :).

Nothing stands against a lib which implements a more complete DateTime
API.

The only thing we don't want that vala programs per default depend on
too much non-glib stuff. So we would not like it defining a run-time
library which must be installed to make vala programms run on a certain
machine.

> I'm testing Vala by trying to port a small application written with
> python/gtk.
>
> Regards,
>         Hessu
Raffaele