Howdy, > Okay, sounds fine. ICU is 33 MB installed, compared to Parrot's < 2MB > install size. Not a big deal for the average Debian install, but > definitely something to keep in mind for making it a universal requirement.
I am hesitant to make ICU a hard dependency, because it may not be available on mobile/embedded systems and/or people may not want to use it because it adds too much to the memory footprint. Anybody have data on the memory footprint of a Parrot interp with and without ICU? On the other hand, this may be what we need to justify having "flavors" of Parrot. At the least, we need a "desktop" flavor and an "embedded" flavor. The "desktop" flavor could basically be the "embedded" flavor with more libraries/etc thrown in. I envision that we will then show people how we built each flavor and give them the tools to build their own Parrot flavors. I see this as a key differentiator and killer feature. Duke -- Jonathan "Duke" Leto <[email protected]> Leto Labs LLC 209.691.DUKE // http://labs.leto.net NOTE: Personal email is only checked twice a day at 10am/2pm PST, please call/text for time-sensitive matters. _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
