On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:29 AM, <random832@fastmail.us> wrote:
It came up as an aside in the earlier discussion about moving to uintmax_t, but I was wondering - is there any interest in a port to windows? I've got most of the way to a successful zic port (other tools don't work so well yet - everything compiles, but there are subtle incompatibilities that cause problems for the library functions)
I mentioned it. It isn't any sort of priority item to me, personally. However, at work, I have to pay passing attention to Windows and have hopes to get time zone information from data produced by zic into a product, but as long as zic works on Unix and the files can be transported to Windows, that's (probably) fine — though having zic compile on Windows would simplify customer-upgrades using the latest version of the TZ data. All very much in the future. (And yes, I'm sure there are APIs on Windows for the job; they're different from the Unix ones and that presents a problem. And the uniform data source will be important, so people who use our product on Windows and Unix will be able to get the same time-zone results on both platforms, independently of whether the o/s is upgraded. I believe it would allow them more timely access to the changes that occur.) -- Jonathan Leffler <jonathan.leffler@gmail.com> #include <disclaimer.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix - v2013.0118 - http://dbi.perl.org "Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused."