On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:10:24PM +0300, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:31:44AM +0300, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> >> Using system ICU seems wrong in terms of correctness. That's the
> >> reason why we don't use system ICU on Mac and desktop Linux, right?
> >
> > Actually the main reason is that every version of desktop linux has a
> > different version of ICU
> 
> "Different" means "old", right? Having an old version is a correctness
> problem, if the CLDR has changed since.

Can be both ways. Before we upgraded to 52, the version on my system was
newer than the one in nightly. In all likeliness, the version on my
system is still newer than the one in one or several or release, beta
and aurora. ICU changes soname for each version, so it's never backwards
compatible.

Mike
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