13 messages in org.apache.wicket.devRe: VOTE: add Joda time as a dependency| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Eelco Hillenius | Feb 2, 2007 1:07 pm | |
| Philip A. Chapman | Feb 2, 2007 1:32 pm | |
| Igor Vaynberg | Feb 2, 2007 2:24 pm | |
| Ryan Sonnek | Feb 2, 2007 3:04 pm | |
| Eelco Hillenius | Feb 2, 2007 3:29 pm | |
| Eelco Hillenius | Feb 2, 2007 3:30 pm | |
| Ryan Sonnek | Feb 2, 2007 4:32 pm | |
| Crash_Neo | Feb 2, 2007 5:18 pm | |
| Johan Compagner | Feb 3, 2007 2:48 am | |
| Martijn Dashorst | Feb 3, 2007 4:13 am | |
| Igor Vaynberg | Feb 3, 2007 9:52 am | |
| Ryan Sonnek | Feb 3, 2007 10:18 am | |
| Erik van Oosten | Feb 4, 2007 12:28 pm |
| Subject: | Re: VOTE: add Joda time as a dependency | |
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| From: | Igor Vaynberg (igor...@gmail.com) | |
| Date: | Feb 2, 2007 2:24:12 pm | |
| List: | org.apache.wicket.dev | |
exactly what will you improve in core by having joda time? why cant it be a dependency on the extensions? or why not make it a core module all onto itself?
-igor
On 2/2/07, Philip A. Chapman <pcha...@pcsw.us> wrote:
My non-binding vote is go for it.
Eelco Hillenius wrote:
Hi all,
For those who don't know, Joda Time: http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/ is a *much* better replacement of the Java date and time APIs it many ways (see their 'why Joda time section'). Also, Joda time will be the basis of JSR 310 (http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=310).
Date/ time handling wouldn't normally be part of Wicket's responsibility, wouldn't it be the fact that our date related components suffer from the JDKs API being bad. I wrote some components and a converter based on Joda time that work better than the current ones we have. The most important feature of those components is that they take the client's time zone into account. I've tried to write them against the normal date/time API, but got so sick of battling it that I gave up. And as soon as I adopted Joda time (which we were already using for our project), it worked superb!
My proposal is to include Joda time as a dependency of the wicket core project. I know *any* extra dependency raises eyebrows and I feel great about Wicket hardly having any dependencies at the moment. However, I feel this library is so good and could improve our core components and converters so much that it is worth having the extra dependency.
Joda time is a maven 2 project, is Apache 2.0 licensed, and version 1.4 is 512KB.
Your thoughts/ votes?
Eelco