Do we use any of the OS specific parts of ICU? -Jeff
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Jonathan Kew <jfkth...@gmail.com> wrote: > We make considerable (and growing) use of ICU for various aspects of i18n > support in Gecko.† > > The ICU project is proposing to drop support for Windows XP and OS X 10.6 > in version 58; I guess this will be released sometime shortly after Unicode > 9.0, which is due to appear in June. > > Markus (in the message forwarded below) mentions October 2016; I assume > that's when they expect to end support for ICU 57. > > So we need to decide how we're going to respond to this. Some options for > consideration: > > (a) Adopt ICU 58 when released, and drop Gecko support for WinXP and OSX > 10.6. > > (b) Keep Gecko on ICU 57 and Unicode 8.0 until .... when? AFAIK, we have > not made any firm decisions regarding EOL for Firefox on these platforms. > > (c) Keep Gecko on ICU 57 code, but update its data files to support > Unicode 9.0. This would take some effort on our side, though _probably_ not > very much. > > (d) Push back against the ICU proposal to drop these platforms, and see if > we can convince them to delay it. (No guarantees, though at least they're > asking. If we had a specific end date to propose, I'd guess that might help > our case.) > > In the case of either (b) or (c), we'd also need to take responsibility > for handling any critical security issues that are discovered that affect > the no-longer-maintained version we'd be shipping (e.g. by backporting > fixes from the latest upstream version). > > > Thoughts? > > JK > > > † Except on Android, where we maintain separate code to support some > features; others are simply missing. > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Re: [icu-design] [icu-support] Drop Windows XP and OSX 10.6 > support > Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 08:55:55 -0700 > From: Markus Scherer <markus....@gmail.com> > To: icu-design <icu-des...@lists.sourceforge.net> > CC: ICU support mailing list <icu-supp...@lists.sourceforge.net>, > Jonathan Kew <jonat...@jfkew.plus.com> > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Steven Loomis <s...@icu-project.org > <mailto:s...@icu-project.org>> wrote: > > Jonathan and other users, > Please comment on whether dropping Windows XP for ICU 58 will > cause significant problems. > We discussed this for 57 (as per below) but no code changes were > made. > > > For ICU 57, we were just thinking of removing some Windows XP-specific > synchronization code. We decided to just keep that for 57. > > For ICU 58, we are looking at switching more code over to Windows > Vista/7/8 APIs because Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 only support > i18n APIs with LCID parameters and cannot support some languages at all. > Newer Windows versions added APIs that take language tag strings. This > is important for an i18n library on a major platform... > > For how long do you plan to support Windows XP past October 2016? Could > you stay on ICU 57/CLDR 29/Unicode 8 until you stop supporting Windows XP? > > Also, Windows Vista seems to have very low market share and seems to be > getting dropped by vendors around the same time they drop XP. > Is it ok to skip Vista and set Windows 7 as the new base for ICU 58? > > Best regards, > markus > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
