Remove time dependency from chrono

[AldaronLau]

I know this is changed in the master branch, but it would be nice to have on 1.4.x as well, considering that 2.0.0 isn't out yet.

[weiznich]

Thanks for submitting this PR. As of today we do not plan to issue another 1.4.x release. That's reserved for finding a critical bug that needs to be fixed. I consider this feature to be a nice to have change so I would include it in an already planed release, but won't cut a new release for it. As of this I will leave this PR open till either 2.0 is released or we cut another 1.4.x release.
That written: The CI failures look legit. A requirement for maybe including this into a release would be a passing CI.

[AldaronLau]

@weiznich Updated PR to add required chrono/clock feature, but CI is still failing on some of the checks for odd reasons.

Also, I looked but couldn't find - is there a roadmap or timeline for the 2.0.0 release?

[weiznich]

Also, I looked but couldn't find - is there a roadmap or timeline for the 2.0.0 release?

We do not have a public roadmap or timeline for the next release, but I would say it shouldn't be to far away (at least a rc release). Open issues/PR's that are relevant are: #2996, #3021 and some sort of fix for #3016. Any help there would be welcome and would enable an earlier release.

[weiznich]

About the CI errors: The sqlite and mysql cases would likely require a backport of #3052. The compile tests ci run points out a real issue. The minimal supported chrono version does not have the relevant feature. This likely indicates we would need to bump that minimal version, which is something that is not possible as patch release. (Strictly speaking that would require a major version bump)

[weiznich]

Closed as 2.0.0 is finally released. It does contain this fix.