> > > It looks good, though can you explain the rationale for having a separate > library? It seems from my perspective as if the objective of exposing all > the good Joda functionality for Clojure consumption would be more readily > achieved by extending the existing clj-time library.
I chose to write it as a separate library because the approach to wrapping JodaTime API is quite different from clj-time. Clj-time is opinionated in the sense that it puts DateTimes in the UTC time zone at the center of the API. Clojure.joda-time on the other hand doesn't force time zones in date-times and provides a rich support for partials (LocalDate/LocalDateTime) which should be used when time zones are irrelevant. I agree that having one JodaTime wrapper would be quite enough, but clojure.joda-time grew out of my frustration with a couple of bugs I got while using clj-time (yes, I didn't expect date-times in the UTC time zone by default, and yes, I know that I should be blamed for not reading the documentation :)). In any case, having released the thing, I would be interested in unifying the APIs with clj-time and merging into a single project. I think your usage of simple check is interesting. What bugs did > simple-check find inside Joda and can you speak about that process in > general? Simple-check found a bunch of bugs with Partials, mainly concerning the rarely used DateTimeFieldTypes such as era, yearOfCentury, weekyear, etc. Also a couple of edge cases with DateTime properties. Interestingly, the bugs were found not in the properties themselves, as properties checked the code I wrote which is quite simple, but in the generators. And let me say, debugging generators is a PITA. The process of writing properties is quite simple, just think of a property and write it in code :) The harder part is defining generators for the data fed into the properties. Now that I think of it, it would probably be useful to clean up the generators and publish them separately to enable people writing more simple-check specifications when interacting with JodaTime... -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
