Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Date/time formatting

[Colin P. A. <co...@co...>]

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:

    Eric> Colin Paul Adams wrote:
    Eric> I can see that people who don't care about XSLT and XPath
    Eric> will have more classes to compile. Will there be people who
    Eric> will use these new functionalities in the date/time library
    Eric> and not the xslt/xpath libraries?
    >> 
    >> Yes.

    Eric> Who?

Me for one. I don't want to have to run an XSLT transformation just to
format a date.
And Mauricio thought it was a very good idea, which is why he asked me
to implement it. You have received emails about this haven't you?

    >> The refactoring is precisely so you DON'T have to compile the
    >> XPath and XSLT libraries in to your application to get these
    >> formatting routines.

    Eric> But now even if you don't need these functionalities you
    Eric> have to compile regexp and math when you use the date/time
    Eric> library.  Which is better?

The latter, as they are much smaller.
But perhaps there should be a separate formatting library, with a time
cluster within it. I think that makes a lot of sense.

Another thing I have long wanted to do sometime (but not now), is to
generate Eiffel classes from the Common Locale Database Repository
(Unicode CLDR project - see http://www.unicode.org/cldr/), and it
probably makes sense for that to be another cluster in the same library.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire