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Postings from August 2002
The mass of ICU code that's been added to Parrot. It's taking an amazingly long time to import, and I'm apologizing profusely in advance for this massive import. However, one of our goals -is- to do Unicode out of the gate, and the easiest way to do this is adapt the ICU library for our own nefarious purposes. I'm going to go through and clean out some of the code that we won't use, but it's not going to help download times very much. If nothing else, this will add an incentive to not delete your parrot/ directory... It's probably not going to go into the MANIFEST until we decide what pieces we actually need, but we at least need the Unicode tables and basic libraries to properly handle Unicode character sets. Parrot won't actually -use- any of this for at least one or two versions, so there isn't much need to panic just yet. I also don't expect that anyone is going to actually do anything with this aside from me, so I'm going to start locally working on interlocking Parrot with this, and not commit things until we have the build infrastructure and such in place. Contrary to rumor I didn't do this to push my 'bytes added' count past Simon or Dan :) Again, my most profuse apologies, but we have to get this thing into the Unicode era. If it has to be kicking and screaming, my apologies but so be it. -- Jeff <jgoff@perl.org>Thread Next