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Postings from January 2010
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Abigail wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 05:58:04AM +0000, Jose Pedro Oliveira wrote:
> > On 2010-01-29 05:40, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> > > ...
> > > I wonder how used ICU is?
> > ...
>> > parrot-0:2.0.0-2.fc12.i686
>> > rakudo-0:0.0.2010.01_2.0.0-2.fc12.i686
...
> So, it's not unknown in the Perl world. Perhaps our friends for the
> other side may be able to share some knowledge?
It's now been several years since I looked at ICU, so my experience may
well be out-of-date.
It's got a mix of configure-determined things and hard-wired config/mh-*
files. If you had one of the supported platforms, it tended to build ok,
or, if it didn't, it was usually relatively easy to fix. If you tried a
different platform (or, for example, you tried a non-default compiler for
your platform) it was much less likely to work, and much more difficult
to patch up.
There's undoubtedly a lot of good stuff in ICU. Much of it's in C++. Any
way we slice it, there's probably a lot of work involved in making good
use of it.
--
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
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