I agree with Esteban on Chalten. Chalten currently loads on Pharo 4 and 5 without any issue.
It has a lots of tests cases that help a lot to learn about it. On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> wrote: > I don’t know chronos, but Chalten (the Aconcagua date API) is quite nice > (overuse of globals, IMO, but you gain a lot of expressivity). > > Esteban > > > On 24 Nov 2015, at 18:34, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi guys > > > > I made the mistake to think that it was a good move to improve and make > the core more full (and complex in the past). > > Now what I would love is the following. > > > > - keep and reduce if necessary the core date classes (only used > internally by the system) > > - have nice packages that we can load to represent time / calendar > > -- chronos > > -- aconcagua > > -- or a new one > > > > That do it the right way: with locale and so on. > > Why? because it can be complex and verbose and we want to have a small > core (for many different reasons). > > About the durationFormatter I think that we should definitively have > more strategies to represent dates and other > > within a nice date/calendar package. > > > > I would love that someone propose something to get the nice extensible > Calendar/Date package > > > > Stef > > > > Le 24/11/15 16:25, Esteban A. Maringolo a écrit : > >> 2015-11-24 12:14 GMT-03:00 Skip Lentz <[email protected]>: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I also had an idea for a method which returns the most significant > unit of a Duration. > >>> > >>> For example, you have a duration of 432 days, 3 hours, 21 minutes, 5 > seconds, etc., and > >>> it would return you "432 days" (or just “1 year”). I encountered this > when wanting to create > >>> a time indication on e.g. a commit or a comment. It’s much more > readable and user-friendly > >>> than a timestamp. > >>> > >>> Would this be a nice addition to the Duration API? > >> It would be nice to have. But why not something like a > >> DurationFormatter? that in turn collaborates with the Locale to ge the > >> words for "Year, Month, Week" in the current language. > >> > >> Regards! > >> > >> > > > > > > >
