Re: Proposal for a response to SUN's announcement

2006-11-17 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 11:09 -0800, David Daney wrote: > If an official response is deemed necessary, this one seems good. > > It is fairly content free, which I think is all you can have given the > constraints that it is a press release *and* from a moderatly large free > software project.

Re: New java.text implementation

2006-11-17 Thread Per Bothner
Guilhem Lavaux wrote: As a remainder I have made in 2004 a comparison between ICU and java.text. I cannot find why I have at the time rejected a ICU binding (except it is a huge machinery for so little classes and that RuleBasedCollator must have a severe layer to adapt the rules to ICU's format)

Re: New java.text implementation

2006-11-17 Thread Guilhem Lavaux
Hi Mario, As a remainder I have made in 2004 a comparison between ICU and java.text. I cannot find why I have at the time rejected a ICU binding (except it is a huge machinery for so little classes and that RuleBasedCollator must have a severe layer to adapt the rules to ICU's format). Here is th

Re: Proposal for a response to SUN's announcement

2006-11-17 Thread David Daney
Nick Hill wrote: Following a discussion on #classpath IRC at around 6pm BST, we have arrived at a potential response to SUNs announcement of the impending release of SUN Java under the GPL. " We welcome Sun's announcement of the forthcoming release of Java under the GNU GPL. Sun's announcem

Re: Proposal for a response to SUN's announcement

2006-11-17 Thread Stuart Ballard
On 11/17/06, Nick Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "The reaction of many Classpath developers can be seen on planet.classpath.org." On IRC the sentence we came up with - but possibly after you drafted your mail - was "The planet.classpath.org website carries the reactions of many individual Clas

Proposal for a response to SUN's announcement

2006-11-17 Thread Nick Hill
Following a discussion on #classpath IRC at around 6pm BST, we have arrived at a potential response to SUNs announcement of the impending release of SUN Java under the GPL. " We welcome Sun's announcement of the forthcoming release of Java under the GNU GPL. Sun's announcement makes Java an e

New java.text implementation

2006-11-17 Thread Mario Torre
Hi! We have discussed on IRC about making ICU4J [1] our default implementation of the java.text package. The ICU4J api contains few classes that are almost a one-to-one replacement of the java.text API, as well as some classes that are needed for correct operation. The library is copyright by IB