ookay, let's use ICU for the url and regular expressions handling, the text segmentation, the bidi itemization, the text layouting, and so on; otherwise it's something like a bad joke to me...
Konstantin 2012/7/31 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com>: > On terça-feira, 31 de julho de 2012 14.25.26, Björn Breitmeyer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> i am a bit confused now, will ICU be hard dependency on 5.0 instead of 5.1? >> As i already mentioned we are having problems with a hard ICU dependency >> for WindowsCE as its not supported by the ICU buildsystem. > > It already is. > >> Will ICU become part of the 3rdparty repo with a more cross platform >> friendly buildsystem? As of know its a huge linux configure script and i >> was unable to even generate my own visual studio solution with the proposed >> cygwin setup. The only way to get a working windows build is use the >> shipped sln file which requires a new visual studio. > > I think we could do that. But the solution we proposed was to use a shared > library, a standard build, not included into QtCore. Using Qt's 3rdparty > system would mean building it into QtCore and that won't solve QtWebKit's > problem. > >> In general i don't know how open the ICU guys are to new platforms. But i >> see this as a larger problem for porting qt to a non unix platform. >> >> I get the reason why ICU is a good idea for supported platforms, but is >> there a reason to enforce it on all platforms? > > Yes. We don't want to continue or begin to carry our own Unicode data, CLDR > and timezone database. ICU provides all of that. > > It solves the problem of encodings, timezones, locale, collation and Unicode. > > -- > Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com > Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center > Intel Sweden AB - Registration Number: 556189-6027 > Knarrarnäsgatan 15, 164 40 Kista, Stockholm, Sweden > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development > _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development