[GRASS-dev] dateutil dependency killing GRASS 7

[Michael Barton]

This seems like a good idea. Gives us time to think about the value and costs of using and bundling dateutil.

Michael Barton
School of Human Evolution &Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:34 AM, "Moritz Lennert" <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:

> On 17/10/12 13:21, Sören Gebbert 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.
> 
> Do you really have to remove it completely ? Can't you check for its presence and if not present fall back on the basic date version ? And put a hint in the manuals about its installation being strongly recommended ?
> 
> Moritz