Changes to daycount conventions in 0.3.8

Posted by Daniele De Francesco-2 on Feb 24, 2005; 6:45am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Changes-to-daycount-conventions-in-0-3-8-tp3637.html

Hi all,

I am quite stunned by the fact that the daycounting conventions have changed
in the latest release of QuantLib and I'm trying to understand if anything
has changed with the actual conventions, QuantLib code, or just the naming
withing the code.

I see that Act365 has been renamed to Act365Fixed and that you now recommend
using ActAct(ISDA) instead of Act365 because they are the same. Are they the
same because they have become the same or have they always been the same
except in our code? There is a link in the documentation that points to a
PDF on the ISDA website, but that link is now dead. So dead in fact it's not
even on Google's cache.
Do you have any other pointers to official documentation so that I can clear
up my mind?

Thanks!
-Daniele