[PATCH 0/4] Versatile date/time parser

[Michal Sojka]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Austin Clements wrote:
> What about CVS's getdate?  Is GPLv1 compatible?  As far as I can tell,
> CVS's getdate depends only on yacc/bison and is probably
> back-in-time-biased rather than forward-in-time-biased like the
> coreutils getdate.

Hmm, it looks good. It is GPLv2 or later version, which is OK. It seems
that it is the same parser which is used in GNU coreutils - only a bit
different (perhaps older) version. I'll look at it and try to prepare
the patches.

-Michal

> 
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Michal Sojka <sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Tom Prince wrote:
> >> On 2011-01-23, Michal Sojka wrote:
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > the following patch series brings into notmuch date/time parser stolen
> >> > from GNU coreutils. It can be applied on top of custom query parser
> >> > patches from Austin Clements.
> >> >
> >> > This is RFC and it not meant for merging.
> >>
> >> Another source for date parsing is perhaps date.c from git, which
> >> (probably) has much smaller (none?) dependencies.
> >
> > Hmm, but Git is GPLv2 and notmuch is GPLv3 and these are not compatible.
> >
> > -Michal
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