Re: NSCharacterSet bloat?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 23 Jan 2006, at 22:40, Derek Zhou wrote:

> Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> writes:
>
> > On 23 Jan 2006, at 20:20, Derek Zhou wrote:
> >
> > > Also the file NSCharacterSetData.h seems like auomatically generated
> > > by some program and I cannot find the program in the base
> > > tarball. Inconvienence aside, it is also against common practices of
> > > distributing free software.
> >
> > The charsets are provided both in the header files in the source code
> > and (less readably) in the old data files.
> > The location of the utilities used to generate the files is given in
> > the readme file in the NSCharacterSets directory containing those
> > data files.
>
> If that is not too big, can we merge them into base or make?

Of course we could ... but I can see no reason to do so, any more  
than we should merge gcc into the base or make package.(less in  
fact ... gcc is generally useful).
Perhaps you want to do something worthwhile here though ... I can see  
some value if you want to produce a new utility to reliably download  
charset data from the unicode website, convert it to the format in  
which it is used in the base library, compare it with the built-in  
data, and produce a warning if the base library is no longer up to  
date.  That would save us the effort of doing it manually once every  
few years.