ICU / icudt26b.dat file on OS X

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 5/11/04 5:48 PM, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:

>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Wow, I have found this big 8 MB file in the OS X !
>> It is located in the
>> 
>>     /usr/share/icu
>> 
>> Please check that you also have it on your computers.
>> Interesting, it looks that OS X 10.2 already have it also.
>> 
>> This is interesting, because then we have chance to NOT distribute this 8MB
>> file with Vcomponents folder for OS X.
>> 
>> On the other hand may be better have it.
>> -- then we get Vcomponents folder THE SAME for all platforms and products.
>> 
>> BTW, that file can be made smaller.
>> Not 8 MB but just 3.5 MB. May be even less.
>> 
> 
> Can you put the pathname in non-Unix terms please? I can only find an
> empty folder called ICU in the Application Support folder.

John, I think you should in search add "visible all"

Path must be 

    system volume:usr:share:icu

> As to your question, I would very much like to *avoid* distributing
> the unicode library for OS X if possible!

> So I would certainly vote for allowing us to use the OS X version (we have to
> build different distribution packages for each platform anyway, so why not let
> us tailor them to best take advantage of the libraries already installed by
> the OS?

Agree, but you sure you will make different archives?

V4RB is CARBON, i.e. ready for OS 9 also.

So you will make 2 Carbon archives? For OS X and OS 9?
I think we will not have Classic target for 2.0.
Because nothing modern not works in Classic: threads, icu, ...


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