On 11/6/07, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony Wu wrote: > > I've raised a JIRA[1] for migrating the dependencies of locale related > > data to icu4j and remove the data in > > luni/src/main/java/org/apache/harmony/luni/internal/locale/. Currently > > I have delegated all the locale related classes to corresponding > > classes in icu4j and successfully removed the dependencies of harmony > > resource bundles. > > Cool -- this is good because it removes the code duplication we have at > present, it shifts the maintenance of the locale data into the right > place (IMHO) that being the ICU project, and gives us the opportunity to > use the ICU tools to customize/refresh/etc the data for Harmony each > time the USA decide to introduce another daylight savings change ;-)
exactly. > > > As expected, there are around 20 failures of harmony test. Many of > > them are caused by data difference. I've listed all of them on harmony > > wiki[2] and will raise them to icu soon. > > Ack. I believe that (pretty much) everyone gets the data from the CLDR, > so I would expect any differences to be tests that have out of date > assumptions about the data. Yes, I'll check it based on CLDR. > > > By applying this patch, we can get 4.2 mega bytes decrease in harmony > > source code, including the svn data. > > ooh, say that again! Removing 4.2Mb of redundant source code is excellent. > > > My proposal is to apply the patch on 5061 first and exclude these > > tests which fail on different locale data. Then I'll take follow up > > action to contact icu team and get solution to move them out. > > Otherwise I'm afraid my fix will be outdated for waiting until icu > > team get ready to fix the data. Do you have any objection? > > > > Later, I'll take care of the performance issue of this delegation. > > > > Thanks in advance for your comments > > Sounds like a good plan. > > Regards, > Tim > -- Tony Wu China Software Development Lab, IBM
