Re: New external dependecy request (ICU)



El mar, 06-01-2004 a las 00:07, Daniel Veillard escribió:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:44:03PM +0100, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> > What do you think?.
> 
>   That this library is HUGE ! 
> paphio:~ -> ls -l /u/veillard/rpms/RPMS/i386/*icu*.rpm
> -rw-rw-r--    1 veillard www       7063462 Oct  9 14:23 /u/veillard/rpms/RPMS/i386/icu-2.6.1-1.i386.rpm
> -rw-rw-r--    1 veillard www       1022018 Oct  9 14:23 /u/veillard/rpms/RPMS/i386/icu-locales-2.6.1-1.i386.rpm
> -rw-rw-r--    1 veillard www       4722422 Oct  9 14:23 /u/veillard/rpms/RPMS/i386/libicu26-2.6.1-1.i386.rpm
> -rw-rw-r--    1 veillard www       1363288 Oct  9 14:23 /u/veillard/rpms/RPMS/i386/libicu-devel-2.6.1-1.i386.rpm
> paphio:~ ->
> 
>   yes seven Megabytes ! When I see how much of a hard time I have
> because libxml2 size, I find this a bit hard to make a hard dependancy
> on such a big library for some translation. 
>   Can you make a clear case of why we need this ? It's not like
> a small library to interface to the kernel or implement a well contained
> functionnality.

That's because it has lots of translations.

We are using them already inside GNOME and with this addition we will
reduce our modules size, as more modules use it, less size will have all
GNOME.

Although, after some other mails I will look for alternatives to get
this done.

Cheers.
> 
> Daniel
-- 
Carlos Perelló Marín
Debian GNU/Linux Sid (PowerPC)
Linux Registered User #121232
mailto:carlos pemas net || mailto:carlos gnome org
http://carlos.pemas.net
Valencia - Spain

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