Re: [Vala] Date and time manipulation

["Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

2006/11/6, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:

Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> 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.
>

it should be okay to define a POSIX layer for the missing glib
functionality EG strftime, file reading/writing etc (it you want windows
support than all that would need some abstraction)

Other interesting tidbits include regex support and gnu/glibc stuff - so
long as its reasonably portable I would suggest including it.

I would also suggest having a small, private lib that's statically
linked into all vala programs. Languages like Delphi (and I guess D) do
this without adding any significant bloat.

A language can not live on glib alone :)

(I wish I had some time to help you guys out...maybe next year!)

Shame on you Jamie! Back to hacking on Tracker!.... good boy.

:-D

Cheers,
Mikkel