Tom Lane wrote: > "John Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Btw, I had been planning to propose replacing every single > one of the > > built in charset conversion functions with calls to ICU > (thus making > > pg _depend_ on ICU), > > I find that fairly unacceptable ... especially given the > licensing questions, but in any case.
The licencing seems pretty clear to me. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/license.jsp > > It might be OK to rip out the existing conversion support and > say that *if* you want encoding conversion, you have to use > ICU. But I don't want to be told you cannot build PG without > ICU period. Right, that could be done, but I think the issue at heart is _are_ we going to use it at all, and if so, locale support would certainly benefit from going that way as well. > > The 3.2 vs 2.8 business is disturbing also; specifically, I > don't think we get to require 3.2 on a platform where 2.8 is > installed. There seems to be nothing in the ICU licence that would prevent us from bundling it. This would solve both the 3.2 vs 2.8 problems, and would remove the 'dependency'. > People just aren't going to hold still for that, even > assuming that ICU supports installing both versions at once, > which isn't clear to me at the moment ... There's no problems with having both installed. I did that on debian to get the patch going. Tho, bundling it seems cleaner to me. > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
