Tinker <ti...@openmailbox.org> writes: > On 2015-12-16 05:04, j...@wxcvbn.org wrote: >> Tinker <ti...@openmailbox.org> writes: >> >>> What would the decision be based on? >> >> I think that those points should be enough. >> - good reasons to use ICU in boost, not just "I need the ICU parts of >> Boost.". What would be the benefit for the ports tree? > > I need normalize() to do Unicode normalization!
I'm glad to hear that you want to do Unicode normalization using ICU, that is not a valid answer to what I said above. We have one report here: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=144171504417490&w=2 jirib didn't confirm that ICU was the only thing needed to make his aegisub port work, and to my knowledge no existing port requires ICU in boost. The only benefit I can see so far is to have a boost package similar to other distros. > E.g. within locale(BC_LOCALE_UTF8). > > http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_54_0/libs/locale/doc/html/group__convert.html > > Boost.Locale requires Boost to be compiled with --with-icu , > http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_59_0/libs/locale/doc/html/index.html > says: > > "In order to achieve this goal Boost.Locale uses > the-state-of-the-art Unicode and Localization library: ICU - > International Components for Unicode. > > Boost.Locale creates the natural glue between the C++ locales > framework, iostreams, and the powerful ICU library." > > > > (Then it continues "Boost.Locale provides non-ICU based localization > support as well. It is based on the operating system native API or on > the standard C++ library support. Sacrificing some less important > features, Boost.Locale becomes less powerful but lighter and easier to > deploy and use library." - but, there's an issue here that the > C++/OS-bundled unicode normalization may be incomplete or broken so this > is why you want ICU.) > >> - someone has to do the work, and that includes checking for potential >> breakage. > > Right, Kirill said you are looking into this already now In this thread I see no mail from Kirill saying this. Who is "you" in this sentence? Back to thumb twiddling, [...] -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
