Re: Patched MySQL plugin
Re: Patched MySQL plugin
- Subject: Re: Patched MySQL plugin
- From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:36:45 -0700
On Sep 30, 2010, at 12:03 AM, Simon wrote:
>> Calendar dates should not be represented by NSTimestamp. The Date prototype is wrong for using it IMHO.
>
> i couldn't agree more. but where do we go from here ?
>
> 1) leave the mysql date prototype as it is now, broken and unusable
If it is broken, then either no one is using it, or they are using it in a way that your change would break.
> 2) patch the mysql date prototype so that it works properly, but still
> mapped to NSTimestamp so that we don't break everyone in the world who
> is using it as an NSTimestamp
>
> 3) change the mysql date prototype completely (i'm a fan of plain old
> int's) and put up with the flack from the people we break!
>
> 4) alternatively i guess we could just add a new mysql prototype (e.g.
> intDate) .... ?
Why ints? If we are going to do that, why not find a Java class that gives us what we really want? Or, uh, what we think we want.
Chuck
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