Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-05-26 Thread kobi zamir
: http://libhdate.sourceforge.net/documentation_cpp/html/classhdate_1_1Hdate.html On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010, Stan Goodman wrote about "Re: Hebrew calendar software > creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?"

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-05-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, May 26, 2010, Stan Goodman wrote about "Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?": > But parahot are not always the same in Israel and in the Diaspora. Right - in Israel in the Diaspora both the parashot and holidays

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-05-25 Thread Stan Goodman
At 23:29:06 on Tuesday Tuesday 25 May 2010, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > "Nadav Har'El" writes: > > I still believe that the whole approach of having holidays of a > > single year (it doesn't matter if 2007 or 2010) is wrong. It not only > > means that the distro needs to update this list every year

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-05-25 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Nadav Har'El" writes: > I still believe that the whole approach of having holidays of a single year > (it doesn't matter if 2007 or 2010) is wrong. It not only means that the > distro needs to update this list every year, it also means that you can't > find out when next year's holidays are (and

RE: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-05-25 Thread Ron Varburg
> From: stan.good...@hashkedim.com > To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > Subject: Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when > updating the calendar? > Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 18:12:21 +0300 > > At 15:27:10 on Tuesday Tuesday 25 May 2010, Ron Varburg >

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-05-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, May 25, 2010, Ron Varburg wrote about "RE: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?": > I intend to file the following report.  Any comments? I still believe that the whole approach of having holidays of a single year (it does

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-05-25 Thread Stan Goodman
At 15:27:10 on Tuesday Tuesday 25 May 2010, Ron Varburg wrote: > I intend to file the following report.  Any comments? > > Package: bsdmainutils > Version: 8.0.11 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > >   calendar.judaic was last updated in 2007.  Due to the nature of > the Jewish calendar, it ren

RE: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-05-25 Thread Ron Varburg
I intend to file the following report.  Any comments? Package: bsdmainutils Version: 8.0.11 Severity: normal Tags: patch   calendar.judaic was last updated in 2007.  Due to the nature of the Jewish calendar, it renders the file unusable.  To address the difficulties facing the maintaner, a pyth

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Kobi, On Thursday 15 Apr 2010 18:37:18 kobi zamir wrote: > I forgot to change the line > > my $h = hdatec::new_Hdate(); > to > my $h = new hdate::Hdate(); > this is called indirect object notation. It is recommended to do: my $h = hdate::Hdate->new() Instead. Otherwise, looks fine.

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-15 Thread kobi zamir
I forgot to change the line my $h = hdatec::new_Hdate(); to my $h = new hdate::Hdate(); On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:34 PM, kobi zamir wrote: > Ohh Perl is an ugly language ... > > Here is the perl code with shlomi's sugestions, it works just the same. > > #-

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-15 Thread kobi zamir
Ohh Perl is an ugly language ... Here is the perl code with shlomi's sugestions, it works just the same. #-- use strict; use warnings; use hdate; my $h = hdatec::new_Hdate(); $h->set_gdate(1,1,2010); my $julian = $h->get_julian(); for(my $i = 0; $i

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-15 Thread kobi zamir
You do not have to use perl :-) You can use gnu-pascal or free-pascal or c or c++ or python or ruby. The point is that creating a list of holydays ( holy-day, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Holyday ) is **very** easy to generate autocratically, if for some reason you do not want to use the comma

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Kobi, some comments on your Perl code: On Thursday 15 Apr 2010 07:22:31 kobi zamir wrote: > > 3. Is there a way to semi automatically create the non regular dates, > > such as the postponed date of the holocaust day? Is there a known > > authoritative sites to pick these dates from? > > ther

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-14 Thread kobi zamir
> 3. Is there a way to semi automatically create the non regular dates, > such as the postponed date of the holocaust day?  Is there a known > authoritative sites to pick these dates from? there are some fully automated ways :-) : I. the command line hdate: hdate -H 2010 will print all the holiday

RE: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-14 Thread Ron Varburg
> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:25:48 +0300 > From: n...@math.technion.ac.il > To: dotanco...@gmail.com > CC: linux...@hotmail.com; linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > Subject: Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when > updating the calendar? > > Finally,

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-14 Thread kobi zamir
you can generate the list automatically using some scripting language , e.g. python: on debian: # apt-get install libhdate-python # import hdate year = 2010 h = hdate.Hdate() h.set_gdate(1,1,2010) julian = h.get_julian() for i in range(0

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Dotan Cohen wrote: It looks like it would need to be hand edited Watch your language! Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.a

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 14 Apr 2010 09:57:28 Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 14 April 2010 09:25, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?": > >> I meant in

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 14 April 2010 09:25, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Re: Hebrew calendar software > creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?": >> I meant in terms of actually generating that file. It looks like itwoul

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?": > I meant in terms of actually generating that file. It looks like itwould > need to be hand edited, which I can do once a year, but not fo

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> What would it take to maintain such a file? I might be able to do that. > > I hope that filing a bug to the distro  bugzilla, and attaching a patch > is suffice. > I meant in terms of actually generating that file. It looks like it would need to be hand edited, which I can do once a year, but n

RE: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-13 Thread Ron Varburg
I hope that filing a bug to the distro bugzilla, and attaching a patch is suffice. > Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:32:06 +0300 > Subject: Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when > updating the calendar? > F

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I am running updates on my system on daily basis (ubuntu 9.10), and see what > I've found -  The file is not maintained for five years, and the dates last > updated seven (!) years ago. Someone should takeover this and create script > to automatically generate the file every year. Calling someone

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-13 Thread Tomer Cohen
about "Re: Hebrew calendar software > creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?": > > $ cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.judaic > > /* > > * Judaic Calendar. Maintained by Josef Grosch . > >... > > /* > > * Jewish calendar for

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010, Tomer Cohen wrote about "Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?": > $ cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.judaic > /* > * Judaic Calendar. Maintained by Josef Grosch . >... > /* > * Jewish c

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-13 Thread Tomer Cohen
2010/4/13 Nadav Har'El On Tue, Apr 13, 2010, Ron Varburg wrote about "Hebrew calendar software > creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?": > > > > The file /usr/share/calendar.judaic is out of date. > > Where did this file come from? It doesn't exist on Fedora, for example.

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010, Ron Varburg wrote about "Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?": > > The file /usr/share/calendar.judaic is out of date. Where did this file come from? It doesn't exist on Fedora, for example. > The creators of Hebrew calen

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-13 Thread shimi
2010/4/13 Ron Varburg > > The file /usr/share/calendar.judaic is out of date. > The creators of Hebrew calendars software probably track > updates of the calendar. Perhaps they might update > this list regulary about updates to the calendar, so that > others can send an updated file to their fa