Greg Stein wrote: > > That's not what started it. I think that APR is outside of its scope, > and wanted to ask about getting back to basics: provide platform > portability, not APIs for third-party libraries.
Forking on this note. I believe that if we can abstract concepts (dbd, for example) in a way that lets /users/ go with more than one solution to a problem, it's a good thing. In fact, it's my motiviation to look at IBM's ICU and decide what's wrong with the apr_xlate wrapper - it shouldn't echo iconv, it should provide a simple API that happens to use either iconv or ICU or ... the only real requirement being the ability to stream transliterations (which Microsoft APIs frankly suck at).
