Re: [Development] Proposed solution to the ICU problem

2012-08-08 Thread Konstantin Ritt
2012/8/8 : > For basic Unicode data that we need to render text, it might however make > sense to keep a copy if this makes a big enough difference in performance. Depends on what you mean by "a big enough difference in performance". 2012/8/8 : > Let's just go through things and decide togethe

Re: [Development] Proposed solution to the ICU problem

2012-08-08 Thread lars.knoll
On Aug 8, 2012, at 2:35 PM, ext Konstantin Ritt wrote: >>> Yes. We don't want to continue or begin to carry our own Unicode data, CLDR >>> and timezone database. ICU provides all of that. > > So, does this mean I should abandon my QUnicode* and QText* changes/branches? Depends on what they do.

Re: [Development] Proposed solution to the ICU problem

2012-08-08 Thread Konstantin Ritt
>> Yes. We don't want to continue or begin to carry our own Unicode data, CLDR >> and timezone database. ICU provides all of that. So, does this mean I should abandon my QUnicode* and QText* changes/branches? Konstantin ___ Development mailing list Deve

Re: [Development] Proposed solution to the ICU problem

2012-08-04 Thread Konstantin Ritt
ookay, let's use ICU for the url and regular expressions handling, the text segmentation, the bidi itemization, the text layouting, and so on; otherwise it's something like a bad joke to me... Konstantin 2012/7/31 Thiago Macieira : > On terça-feira, 31 de julho de 2012 14.25.26, Björn Breitmeyer

Re: [Development] Proposed solution to the ICU problem

2012-07-31 Thread Thiago Macieira
On terça-feira, 31 de julho de 2012 14.25.26, Björn Breitmeyer wrote: > Hi, > > i am a bit confused now, will ICU be hard dependency on 5.0 instead of 5.1? > As i already mentioned we are having problems with a hard ICU dependency > for WindowsCE as its not supported by the ICU buildsystem. It alr

Re: [Development] Proposed solution to the ICU problem

2012-07-31 Thread Björn Breitmeyer
Hi, i am a bit confused now, will ICU be hard dependency on 5.0 instead of 5.1? As i already mentioned we are having problems with a hard ICU dependency for WindowsCE as its not supported by the ICU buildsystem. Will ICU become part of the 3rdparty repo with a more cross platform friendly builds

[Development] Proposed solution to the ICU problem

2012-07-31 Thread Thiago Macieira
Quick discussion on IRC happened. This is a summary of the discussion and proposal for the SDK. Situation: The ICU libraries *do* offer a stable C API, which they say they will maintain and keep compatible. However, the library soname changes on every version and most distributors enable symbol r