I read it, it tells me _what_ it is; a different internal
representation for the Chronology classes, but I could not put
together the why, as a user, I should want to use it.  This is not a
criticism, Dave, just ignorance.  What's are the pros and cons of
UTCDateAndTime approach?

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:51 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> This was something I did last year:
>
>   http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6197
>
> I would like to be able to share this so folks can review the code. I'd
> prefer to be able to do that with Monticello, which is not practical with
> the current package structure.
>
> Dave
>
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 7:33 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I would like to move Chronology from 'Kernel-Chronology' to a new
>>> package
>>> called 'Chronology', and move 'KernelTests-Chronology' to a new package
>>> called 'Tests-Chronology'.
>>>
>>> Rationale:
>>>
>>> - Chronology is a large package that is functionally separable from the
>>> rest of the things in Kernel.
>>
>> It's not that big.  It includes Date and Time, which are part of base
>> Smalltalk-80.  How you going to extricate those from Chronology?
>>
>>> - I have a UTC based variation of Chronology that addresses a number of
>>> issues that I think may be of long term benefit, and that prevent the
>>> kinds
>>> of issues that we are currently seeing in trunk. I would like to offer
>>> this
>>> for review in the inbox, but that is not practical with the current
>>> packaging.
>>
>> Chronology has proved its usefulness in a wide variety of
>> applications.  I have no issues with it.  What issues are you
>> attempting to address with your UTC based variation?
>>
>>> Would anyone object to this change to package structure?
>>
>> I really think Date and Time and possibly even DateAndTime are part of
>> Kernel Smalltalk-80.  I think it would be nice to know what it is
>> you're really trying to accomplish with your UTC variation..
>>
>> Incidentally, if you do go down this road, the standard that most
>> packages following these days are hierarchical names; Chronology-Core
>> and Chronology-Tests.
>>
>
>