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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] branches/KDE/3.5/kdepim/libkholidays
From:       Allen Winter <winter () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-06-10 1:27:29
Message-ID: 200606092127.29217.winter () kde ! org
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On Friday 09 June 2006 12:02, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> SVN commit 549721 by kainhofe:
> 
> The holiday library now also supports 
> -) Multiple holidays on the same date (e.g. start of summer time and easter 
> on the same day, etc.)
> -) conditional shifting of holidays (e.g. if a holiday occurs on a saturday 
> or sunday, it is actually celebrated on the following monday). Example: 
> small  "May holiday" weekend on 1.5. shift to monday if saturday || sunday
> The holiday data files still need to be adapted wherever such a system 
> applies (UK, Wales, Ireland are known from bug reports, but I don't 
> know which holidays are really affected).
> 
> It's incredible, how simple it is to hack these lex/yacc parsers (which had the \
> fame that nobody in kde would understand them), once you take the ten minutes to \
> print out a yacc tutorial and the 45 minutes to look at the code (and then the ~2 \
> hours to fix the inadvertant bugs in the C code that come through the ancient \
> pointer-increasing in C to walk through a list, when you are used to Qt-style list \
> iterators  ;-) ) 
> CCBUG:64673
> CCBUG:92474
> 
Slap!  Good work.
I doubt we need libkholidays_ng now.

Forward port to trunk please.
-Allen

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