[GRASS-dev] dateutil dependency killing GRASS 7

[Michael Barton]

Thanks very much Soren.

Perhaps datetutil is a great thing to have, but until we get the packaging thing worked work it is a big problem at least for Macs. It works without a hitch on my Mac, but I don't know how or where I got dateutil. 

I suggested that other Mac users install MatPlotLib (also a great piece of software, but not a GRASS dependency). But it seems that it is not helping at least for some users, and GRASS 7 cannot be launched with a missing dateutil error.

I will compile and test your update as soon as possible (probably tonight). I and other Mac users (and maybe Windows users too?) appreciate your quick response.

Michael
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On Oct 17, 2012, at 6:21 AM, Sören Gebbert <soerengebbert at googlemail.com>
 wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> sorry to introduce something painful as a python-dateutil dependency.
> My fault. I should have discussed this on the list indeed.
> 
> I have completely removed the dateutil dependency from the temporal
> GIS in r53435. For now
> only two types of calendar time stings are supported for parsing.
> 
> ISO dates and ISO dates with time:
> 
> 2001-01-01
> 2001-01-01 12:30:00
> 
> Time zones are not supported.
> 
> You can extend the datetime string parser that is in use instead of
> the dateutil parser in:
> lib/python/temporal/datetime_math.py in function string_to_datetime()
> for your needs.
> 
> Best regards
> Soeren
> 
> 2012/10/17 Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu>:
>> A couple of things here.
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>> 1. We need to be able to bundle dateutil or to have it bundled with Mac
>> frameworks. Otherwise, temporal GIS doesn't work apparently.
>> 2. The lack of dateutil for TGIS should not shut down the entire GUI. This
>> is a serious problem. It could make part or all of TGIS not functional, but
>> it is NOT needed for anything else. So it should not kill the entire
>> interface. It needs to be walled off somehow.
>> 3. I thought that adding new dependencies was something that should be
>> brought up in the dev group, at the very least to make everyone aware of it.
>> 
>> Michael
>> ____________________
>> C. Michael Barton
>> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Arizona State University
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