ICU / icudt26b.dat file on OS X

[jda]

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>>  Can you put the pathname in non-Unix terms please? I can only find an
>>  empty folder called ICU in the Application Support folder.
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>John, I think you should in search add "visible all"
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>Path must be
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>     system volume:usr:share:icu

Ah, thanks. Yes, it's there (OS X 10.3.3)

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>>  As to your question, I would very much like to *avoid* distributing
>>  the unicode library for OS X if possible!
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>>  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?
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>Agree, but you sure you will make different archives?
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>V4RB is CARBON, i.e. ready for OS 9 also.

Not me -- I'm abandoning Classic in my next major upgrade. There are 
just too many cool things you can do easily in OS X that are a pain 
in Classic.

FWIW, when I first started selling my Carbon app in 2001 the 
downloads were split evenly (1:1) between OS X and Classic. Now they 
are at least 10:1 in favor of OS X. So my users are also telling me 
what to do...

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>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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Agree.

Jon