Re: Support (lib)ICU for IDN

Petr Pisar via curl-users <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Jan 2023 22:17:58 +0100

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V Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 10:16:32AM +0100, Daniel Stenberg via curl-users napsal(a):
> On Sun, 15 Jan 2023, Daniel Engberg wrote:
> 
> > The main benefit would be less dependencies (libidn2 pulls at least in 
> > libunistring) while ICU is selfcontained. It would also be a nice addition 
> > for package repos if you could possibly reduce amout of libraries used 
> > overall and potentially build dependencies too. From what I can tell ICUs 
> > license also matches curls license more closely too if that's of interest.
> 
> If someone writes a PR for this I wouldn't mind merging it. I don't have any 
> strong desire to work on this myself.
> 
Just a warning: ICU does not have a stable ABI. Each new ICU version bumps
a library soname. That means that users of ICU needs to rebuild their
applications with each ICU upgrade. That would include libcurl too.

-- Petr

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