[GRASS-dev] dateutil dependency killing GRASS 7

[Glynn Clements]

Moritz Lennert wrote:

> > 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 ?

Then it would become a /de facto/ mandatory dependency.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>