Dependency on Dates and DateTime

[BenjaminBorn]

While running Pkg.add("TimeModels") I got the following error message:

INFO: Building Datetime
==============================[ ERROR: Datetime ]===============================

LoadError: UndefVarError: int64 not defined
while loading /Users/bborn/.julia/v0.5/Datetime/deps/build.jl, in expression starting on line 17

================================================================================
INFO: Building Tk

================================[ BUILD ERRORS ]================================

WARNING: Datetime had build errors.

• packages with build errors remain installed in /Users/bborn/.julia/v0.5
• build the package(s) and all dependencies with Pkg.build("Datetime")
• build a single package by running its deps/build.jl script

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It seems that the functionality of Datetime (as well as Dates) has been merged into Base: https://github.com/quinnj/Datetime.jl .

using TimeModels then resulted in

WARNING: Base.ASCIIString is deprecated, use String instead.
likely near /Users/bborn/.julia/v0.5/Datetime/src/Timezone.jl:23

LoadError: LoadError: LoadError: MethodError: no method matching getindex(::Pair{DataType,DataType}, ::Pair{String,DataType}, ::Pair{String,DataType}, ...

My configuration:

Julia Version 0.5.2-pre+1
Commit a6c55c5* (2017-03-06 03:59 UTC)
Platform Info:
OS: macOS (x86_64-apple-darwin16.4.0)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
WORD_SIZE: 64
BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Haswell)
LAPACK: libopenblas64_
LIBM: libopenlibm
LLVM: libLLVM-3.7.1 (ORCJIT, broadwell)

[ararslan]

As it stands, this package is set up to work strictly on Julia 0.4 only. If you're interested in helping to get the package working on Julia 0.5 and 0.6, a pull request would be more than welcome. 🙂