Well, in my case, I am surely not going to drop it since its used by Mapbox and Valhalla. But making such specific-tailored libicu is not high enough on priority either - there are so many other things to do first. So, Pekka, I hope you'll succeed with libicu optimization that we could just link to it and add as dependency to our applications.
Best wishes, Rinigus On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Tone Kastlunger <users.giulie...@gmail.com> wrote: > One would question at this point, whats the benefit of this library if > such complex scenario needs to be considered > each time you need to use it :) > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Pekka Vuorela <pekka.vuor...@jolla.com> > wrote: > >> On Thu, 2017-12-21 at 21:33 +0200, rinigus wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > when using non-Qt libraries, its sometimes required to link to libicu >> > with its friends. When distributing applications linking to it, you >> > end up with 25MB of library data that is also provided in the system. >> > On my device, there are three apps using it (2 mine). With many >> > complaining about Sony X root partition size, I wonder how standard >> > this library is in SFOS installations. I would expect its always >> > there. If it is standard, shouldn't we get it into permitted libs >> > list for Jolla Harbour? >> >> Sorry, but not that simple: >> http://userguide.icu-project.org/design#TOC-ICU-Binary-Compatibility:-U >> sing-ICU-as-an-Operating-System-Level-Library >> <http://userguide.icu-project.org/design#TOC-ICU-Binary-Compatibility:-Using-ICU-as-an-Operating-System-Level-Library> >> >> I've long hoped for getting icu updated too (which isn't too simple >> either). Guess there could be hope in having some day support with the >> rules set in above link, we already do build with --disable-renaming. >> >> In the meanwhile, it's also possible to strip away a lot of data from >> icu builds: >> http://userguide.icu-project.org/icudata#TOC-Customizing-ICU-s-Data-Lib >> rary >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >> To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscribe@lists.sailfi >> shos.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscribe@lists. > sailfishos.org >
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