Re: [chromium-dev] Use of external libICU
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Mark Mentovai wrote: > nikuli...@gmail.com wrote: >> LibICU is almost ubiquitous in non microsoft OS distributions, usually >> more upstream and ahead of upstream with bugs subsequent to every ICU >> release. Also it takes a lot of time to compile. >> >> Is there any point of having it bundled? > > Our version of ICU is patched relative to the upstream version. > "Distribution" versions of ICU don't contain our patches. > > See http://crbug.com/28294 for the details. And in general, see http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxPackaging for a description of which libraries we can't use from the system (ICU is on that list for the above reason). (Warning: info might be out of date, but at least I'm tryin'.) -- Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
Re: [chromium-dev] Use of external libICU
nikuli...@gmail.com wrote: > LibICU is almost ubiquitous in non microsoft OS distributions, usually > more upstream and ahead of upstream with bugs subsequent to every ICU > release. Also it takes a lot of time to compile. > > Is there any point of having it bundled? Our version of ICU is patched relative to the upstream version. "Distribution" versions of ICU don't contain our patches. See http://crbug.com/28294 for the details. Mark -- Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
[chromium-dev] Use of external libICU
LibICU is almost ubiquitous in non microsoft OS distributions, usually more upstream and ahead of upstream with bugs subsequent to every ICU release. Also it takes a lot of time to compile. Is there any point of having it bundled? -- Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
