On Friday, April 29, 2016 at 2:44:25 AM UTC-5, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > > Given it's WinXP only (and Firefox for Android's recalcitrance ;-) > > I think the situation where Firefox for Android is holding back > Gecko's ability to improve the codebase by getting rid of Netscape-era > code makes no sense, either. I think a Platform should put its foot > down and refuse letting Gecko development be handcuffed like this. > Taking the Android situation is a permit to introduce more build > configurations that omit ICU is entirely backwards.
The Fennec team has been very clear about why they oppose inclusion of ICU in bug 1215247. This type of attitude is why we have people in the Firefox org wanting to axe Gecko. The engineers in Platform consistently want to dismiss mobile-specific issues, and this is a great example. If you really want to get ICU into Fennec, find a way to do it without bloating the APK size instead of bullying the Fennec folks. James _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
