On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:01 AM, TAYLOR Robin <[email protected]> wrote:

> >
> > I'm looking into XMLGregorianCalendar as well -- I wouldn't
> > say DCDate "revolves" around java.util.Date so much. It is
> > often constructed from a Date object, and can return one but
> > the private calendar objects which are storing the actual
> > date/time components are plain GregorianCalender.
> >
>
> Bad choics of words on my part - Even when a DCDate is constructed from a
> metadata value string rather than a Date, the first thing it does is
> construct a Date which it then uses to contruct the GregorianCalendar.


> > This discussion is great (and necessary!), but if/when we go
> > down this road I think it should be post-1.6.1 -- we don't
> > have time to make such big changes for 1.6.1, and it could be
> > argued that it's more than a 'bug fix'. I think we can tidy
> > up the small problems with granularity, display and so on for
> > 1.6.1 and then go from there. Happy to hear counterpoints!
>
> For my part I agree. I personally wont have time to rewrite the class and
> test it properly pre-1.6.1.
>

At least we know the correct path of development now.

-- 
Mark R. Diggory
Head of U.S. Operations - @mire

http://www.atmire.com - Institutional Repository Solutions
http://www.togather.eu - Before getting together, get t...@ther
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Dspace-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel

Reply via email to