Re: NSCalendar and NSLocale support

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
> Really? SUN should use it:
>
> from http://site.icu-project.org/:
<cut: a long list of references>


Thanks, I am capable of looking up that myself. In fact, i even did 
before replying to the email.
Besides, many of those references are more or less just there to make 
"number".

What does it mean that "SuSE supports ICU"? Well, I guess they package 
it. As Gentoo or Debian do. But do I have it installed?
On one system I have it, just because I have Wine.

I'm not saying it is a bad library and I am not saying it is not 
available. But I want to avoid "me too" logic.
And I dislike depending on something which is C++.

On the other hand, on Debian, if you have gworkspace you want libsqlite 
which on Debian is configured to use libicu so you end up using it. But 
on other systems libsqlite does not need libicu at all.

A good solution could be then an internal, simplified, fall-back 
solution so not to have a hard dependency on it. It really depends on 
how much functionality is needed. Maybe the fall-back implementation 
ends up being very difficult or maybe it would cover 99% of what libicu 
does. Dave can tell us surely more.

Riccardo