On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Mark Mentovai <m...@chromium.org> wrote: > nikuli...@gmail.com wrote: >> LibICU is almost ubiquitous in non microsoft OS distributions, usually >> more upstream and ahead of upstream with bugs subsequent to every ICU >> release. Also it takes a lot of time to compile. >> >> Is there any point of having it bundled? > > Our version of ICU is patched relative to the upstream version. > "Distribution" versions of ICU don't contain our patches. > > See http://crbug.com/28294 for the details.
And in general, see http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxPackaging for a description of which libraries we can't use from the system (ICU is on that list for the above reason). (Warning: info might be out of date, but at least I'm tryin'.) -- Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
