Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:40:49AM +0400, Nikolay Samokhvalov wrote:
>> What is 'lack of interest'? Interest from community, or major
>> developers, or your personal one?
> Kind of all three, feeding off eachother. There's just not enough
> interest from any front to really get it moving. It's a fairly invasive
> change and without significant support and interest from somewhere,
> chances of completion let alone acceptance are pretty slim...
I think there was also considerable concern about introducing a
dependency on a very large chunk of outside software (viz, ICU).
Loss of control, licensing questions, etc.
Of course, doing it *without* ICU is even more daunting :-(
but I'd like to think we'll get there someday.
regards, tom lane
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