RE: ICU4D

Thank you for replying.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven R.Loomis [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 2:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: ICU4D



Do you know which parts of ICU do you need? 

Yes. All of it. Everything that Java has, D must have too.

 Some parts of ICU, such as character properties which you mention, are
written in C and the C++ api in ICU is just a wrapper. 

I would think that to avoid maintenance and forks whenever ICU code changes,
that you would want to write thin D object wrappers for ICU calling to the C
apis.  

That would be appropriate in some places, but certainly not everywhere.
Maintainance and forks whenever ICU code changes probably can't be avoided.
The D API would have to be kept up to date, just as the Java API has to be
kept up to date. But we don't really regard that as a problem.

 Obviously this could be evaluated on a per service basis. If you have
inline expansion the wrappers could end up being very thin at run time. 


See the readme (with the source) and userguide for some items on
organization and porting issues. 

Yes, but those notes in the readme refer to porting the existing project to
a new platform. That's not what I'm talking about, so you may have
misunderstood. D is not a platform, it is a programming language. I'm
talking about creating a version of ICU with relevant parts written in D,
just as the Java version has relevant parts written in Java. I'm talking
about a language-port, not a platform-port.

 


hope this helps,  

It doesn't help really, although I thank you for replying. You seem to have
answered as though I had asked "how do I write the code?" That isn't quite
what I meant - I can write code. I know how to make wrappers, when they
might be needed, and when they are inappropriate. What I was trying to ask,
is: How do I start a fork of ICU called ICU4D, with the same status on the
ICU web site as ICU4C or ICU4J? How do we make this an "official" project?
To whom do we have to talk? etc.

Jill

 

 



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