[local-time-devel] Questions & minor Clozure CL/OpenMCL issue

[Arjan Wekking]

Hello,


While looking around for a good and hopefully actively developed CL  
date/time library for our projects I kind of settled on local-time for  
now. I do have a few questions regarding development and a minor issue  
I'm having with Clozure CL and local-time:

1. What's up with local-time development lately? There appears to be  
little activity since March.

2. The TODO mentions intervals; what plans are there to add them and  
how will they be used? Have you seen the way Joda-Time defines  
intervals, durations and periods? What *are* the intervals mentioned  
in the TODO anyway?

3. Clozure CL does not like #.+some-constant+ and/or #.(- +some-other- 
constant+) since it apparently has not yet defined constants at read  
time (makes sense, perhaps). Removing #. in these cases works of  
course, but I'm wondering why read-time evaluation was used and  
whether I'm missing something here (they *are* constants, after all)?

4. Is (my) help welcome? If so, how can we contribute? What is the  
preferred way to offer and discuss patches like my (possibly wrong)  
Clozure CL fix?

I hope I do not appear too rude or anything by posing a list of  
numbered questions, just trying to figure things out and hoping there  
are some people active on this mailing list ;)


Thanks,
-Arjan
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