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Compatibility with time
Some folks bypass Chrono altogether and instead use https://github.com/time-rs/time since it has gained a reputation for being more actively maintained.
It would be worth exploring whether to make this library compatible with both, or to spin out a subset compatible with time which does not have a chrono dependency.
Notes:
While this is definitely possible, it will be tedious to write because time does not have a concept of a DataLike
trait.
That means writing a different function for each of the different Date types in the time crate.
Probably it would be cleaner just to write a separate library for this and split out any "core" functions that are needed, or implement as a separate chronoutil::time
namespace that does not pull in any chrono dependencies.
While I'd love to implement something like RelativeDuration<T>
with T
"duration-like", I think due to the incompatibility between the time and chrono ecosystems, keeping it simple with two completely separate RelativeDuration types will be easier.
More notes:
Because time lacks anything like Datelike
, we may have to impl our own trait in order to get it to work? Unsure how they are implementing their own add
with duration, maybe I should ask them for some implementation tips..