On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:56:36PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wed Jan 30 09:38:34 GMT 2008 Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * Second attempt at removing unused code from OldDate. > > If I understand correctly, patches prior to David's 2003-10-14 patch > "use iso format for dates in record", darcs used a date format like > <Tue Jan 29 09:24:01 GMT 2008>, generated via calendarTimeToString. > Since then, patches have been written in (a subset of) the ISO 8601 format, > like <20080110004605>. Nothing else has been used within patches.
Given our previous troubles, I can't help but wonder if this removal is worthwhile. It's probably safe, but that's what I thought about your last patch. And the absolute safest approach is to not change how we parse dates, which is the conservative approach I lean towards, since we have absolutely no way to know for certain what's present in older repositories. I believe at one time we allowed arbitrary strings in the date field (specified by --pipe) so there might be tailer-converted repositories around with other formats. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
