boost.date_time (Re: Masahiro Nakagawa and SHOO invited to join Phobos developers)

[fawcett at uwindsor.ca]

On 10-04-29 10:49 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 04/29/2010 09:39 AM, SHOO wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu さんは書きました:
>>> Thanks! You are now a Phobos developer.
>> I'm happy to join member of Phobos developer!
>>
>> > Unfortunately you cannot commit
>>> your changes to std.date because it infringes on Tango's license.
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> What did I infringe the license of Tango for? For interfaces? For
>> implements?
>> I've written the codes without the intention. Please tell me the points
>> that are the problem.
>
> I don't know other details except that a Tango representative explicitly
> warned us about the potential infringement yesterday. You may want to
> check with the Tango team. I am sorry for the disappointment this must
> entail to you.
>
> The current direction considered for std.date is to take the design of
> Boost.Date_Time as a starting point.
>
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/doc/html/date_time.html

I wonder how hard it would be to do a simple transliteration of 
boost.date_time into D as a first step? Might it expedite development if 
we could take not just the design, but the actual working code, as a basis?

The optimistic newbie in me imagines that such a transliteration 
wouldn't be too difficult, since so many C++ idioms map directly into D.

Graham