ICU4C proposal: Stop installing convrtrs.txt

I'd like to propose that "gmake install" no longer installs convrtrs.txt 
into /usr/local/etc/icu/.  This was originally installed in order to allow 
end users to add or remove aliases from ICU, but this is not a common or 
simple operation.  The directions to do post-installation modification 
isn't well documented, and most people will just modify the converter 
alias table before building ICU, which means that the alias table in text 
form doesn't need to be installed.  If the text version of the alias table 
is really needed, you can still get a generated version by using the 
"uconv -l --canon" command, or you can download the copy of that file with 
the ICU source code.

Another reason to remove this file is that it's not versioned like the 
library, which means that the installed alias table may be to an old or a 
new version of ICU.  The alias table works best with the current version 
of ICU because tables and aliases are added or removed between releases.

We do realize that some people would like to make it easier to modify the 
alias table, but that is a different issue.  Jitterbugs 2812 and 2332 do 
address the need to add this flexibility.

Deadline for comments: December 9, 2003

George Rhoten
IBM Globalization Center of Competency/ICU  San José, CA, USA