Sounds like a good idea. Deven - did you run the Harmony tests at all with the new ICU?
Thanks, Sian 2009/2/24 Mark Hindess <[email protected]>: > > In message <[email protected]>, > Deven You writes: >> >> Hi, >> I have tried to upgrade icu4j3.8 to icu4j4.0 for classlib trunk on my >> machine, below is the instructions for this upgrade: >> 1. download icu4j-4_0.jar and icu4j-charsets-4_0.jar from ICU official >> website http://icu-project.org/download/4.0.html >> 2. create icu4j_4.0 folder in trunk/depends/jars, copy icu4j-4_0.jar and >> icu4j-charsets-4_0.jar into icu4j_4.0 folder >> 3. create icu4j_4.0 folder in trunk/depends/manifests, copy META-INF foledr >> from icu4j_3.8 and use version 4.0 replace 3.8 in the MANIFEST.MF file. >> 4. apply configuration patch[1] for icu4.0 to change some configuration >> settings. >> 5. apply nio Charset patch[2] to avoid circular dependency error, if no >> this patch, nio_char unit test will report many circular dependency >> error[3] >> >> I think maybe now we can upgrade icu4j 3.8 to icu4j 4.0. >> any issues welcom to discuss! >> >> [1] >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12400589/config_icu40.diff >> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12400590/Charset.diff >> [3] >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12400591/nio_char_errors.txt > > Seems like a good idea. I'll try to find a moment to test this. > > What are the benefits we get from this upgrade? Performance? Footprint? > > In case it helps anyone else, the JIRA with these attachments is: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6096 > > (I don't think there is an easy way to get from attachment links back to the > jira link?) > > Regards, > -Mark. > > > -- Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU
