On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:12:57PM -0800, Ienup Sung wrote: > The thing is, in the past, they even changed C interface return value > types between releases. > > The formating breakage that I mentioned is also for C interfaces. > > Clearly there is no way we can treat ICU as of now as Committed or > even Uncommitted of Sun's unless what they trying to achieve recently > is actually and clearly demonstrated for many releases to come. > > And then in a future release integration, we can promote the interface > stability. BUT not now. > > We, with a vendor cap on this time, should deliver what it is as it is > and we have a responsibility to inform that to customers.
I'll let an ARC member decide whether this issue is significant. IMO ICU is important, and it's important that there be at least one version that is guaranteed to be on the system for the life of a minor release. Nico --
