Hello NJ, Generally, IUS builds on top of stock libraries and we try not build a whole chain of dependencies. We have made some exceptions in the past with mixes results. That being said, I have looked into building an updated libicu. The libicu is a sub-package of the icu package. The icu package has a build requirement for a newer version of autoconf (2.68) that comes in RHEL .
In the past we have packaged autoconf26x (2.63) as it was needed for python26, python31 and rsyslog4. All of these packages are only available for EL 5 along with autoconf26x. Both python26 and rsyslog4 are EOL and ptyhon will only be providing source-only security fixes for python31 till June 2014. Once python31 reached EOL, we were also going to EOL our autoconf26x package. Looking over IUC's documentation, I am concerned about an update breaking applications deploy on stock iuc. See the 'How do I upgrade to a new version of ICU? Should I be concerned about API changes, a new Unicode version or a new CLDR version)?' section of the following: http://userguide.icu-project.org/icufaq I might have considered getting an updated version of libicu into php55u before it first hit the stable repos. -Ben -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of IUS Core Development, which is subscribed to IUS Community Project. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1272309 Title: WL: libicu Status in IUS Community Project: New Bug description: The excellent php intl extension you bundle (e.g. php54-intl, php55-intl) is dependant on the system's installed ICU library libicu (http://site.icu-project.org/). This means that even if I with your help can run a recent PHP version on for example a RHEL 5 machine, it will still use a very outdated ICU library. E.g. RHEL 5 has ICU version 3.6 (released 2006-09-01) and RHEL 6 has ICU version 4.2.1 (released 2009-07-01). On RHEL 5 this means my intl extension can't for example provide me with the country name of country code RS (Serbia) due to this: > var_dump(Locale::getDisplayRegion('und-RS', 'en')); string(2) "RS" On a RHEL 6 machine this would give: > var_dump(Locale::getDisplayRegion('und-RS', 'en')); string(6) "Serbia" Would it be an option for ius to start bundling recent versions of libicu and declare php-intl's dependency against that package to keep things up-to-date? How to determine ICU version: $ php -i | grep "ICU version" ICU version => 3.6 $ rpm -qi libicu | grep Version Version : 3.6 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ius/+bug/1272309/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ius-coredev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ius-coredev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
