Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-09 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi Mathias; --- On Fri, 9/9/11, Mathias Bauer wrote: ... > > If we can be sure about the IP situation, we should at > least add copyright headers to the files, shouldn't we? > Or put a license file into the repository. > The standard Apache policy seems to be to add them to the NOTICE file: htt

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-09 Thread Mathias Bauer
Am 09.09.2011 12:06, schrieb Eike Rathke: > Hi Mathias, > > On Thursday, 2011-09-08 19:33:59 +0200, Mathias Bauer wrote: > >> >> > I don't see why the current ICU 4.0.1 needed to be updated, >> >> > what "issues with headers" are you referring? >> >> >> >> I am not sure exactly when the ICU lic

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-09 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi Eike; --- On Fri, 9/9/11, Eike Rathke wrote: > > > > There was also a bug with Arab glyphs but it was not > specific > > to the icu version. > > Well, yes, for those exist patches in the icu module's > directory, that's the easy case. What I was referring > are changes in other modules becau

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-09 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Pedro, On Friday, 2011-09-09 07:42:37 -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > >>Which version of ICU is used in LibreOffice? If they use a newer > >>one, > >>this probably can tell us about possible "surprises". > > > >The internal ICU is 4.4.2, whether anything needed to be adapted I > >don't > >know.

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-09 Thread Pedro Giffuni
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:11:16 +0200, Eike Rathke wrote: Hi Mathias, On Thursday, 2011-09-08 19:42:25 +0200, Mathias Bauer wrote: > ICU 4.0.1 we use also has regex. Sure, newest ICU probably improved > there, but upgrading ICU in the past gave some surprises, especially > regarding break iterat

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-09 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Mathias, On Thursday, 2011-09-08 19:42:25 +0200, Mathias Bauer wrote: > > ICU 4.0.1 we use also has regex. Sure, newest ICU probably improved > > there, but upgrading ICU in the past gave some surprises, especially > > regarding break iterators, that made it necessary to adapt some things. > >

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-09 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Mathias, On Thursday, 2011-09-08 19:33:59 +0200, Mathias Bauer wrote: > >> > I don't see why the current ICU 4.0.1 needed to be updated, > >> > what "issues with headers" are you referring? > >> > >> I am not sure exactly when the ICU license changed but > >> the first ICU versions had a rest

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-08 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi; --- On Thu, 9/8/11, Mathias Bauer wrote: > > Which version of ICU is used in LibreOffice? If they use a > newer one, > this probably can tell us about possible "surprises". > The FreeBSD port uses 4.8.1 (with local patches). so it looks like they use "system icu" already. I have also se

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-08 Thread Mathias Bauer
Am 08.09.2011 13:30, schrieb Eike Rathke: > Hi Pedro, > > On Wednesday, 2011-09-07 20:32:38 -0700, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > >> > > There is also interest in using icu-regex for >> > > replacing the copyleft regex and the latest >> > > versions seem to have improved a lot. >> > >> > Of course,

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-08 Thread Mathias Bauer
Am 08.09.2011 02:41, schrieb Eike Rathke: > Hi Pedro, > > On Wednesday, 2011-09-07 14:19:50 -0700, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > >> > I don't see why the current ICU 4.0.1 needed to be updated, >> > what "issues with headers" are you referring? >> >> I am not sure exactly when the ICU license chang

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-08 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 09/08/2011 05:32 AM, schrieb Pedro F. Giffuni: --- On Wed, 9/7/11, Eike Rathke wrote: OK, I accept your reasoning. ... There is also interest in using icu-regex for replacing the copyleft regex and the latest versions seem to have improved a lot. Of course, but upgrading ICU at this stag

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-08 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Pedro, On Wednesday, 2011-09-07 20:32:38 -0700, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > > There is also interest in using icu-regex for > > > replacing the copyleft regex and the latest > > > versions seem to have improved a lot. > > > > Of course, but upgrading ICU at this stage for a 3.4 > > release IM

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-07 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- On Wed, 9/7/11, Eike Rathke wrote: OK, I accept your reasoning. ... > > > There is also interest in using icu-regex for > > replacing the copyleft regex and the latest > > versions seem to have improved a lot. > > Of course, but upgrading ICU at this stage for a 3.4 > release IMHO is not an

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-07 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Pedro, On Wednesday, 2011-09-07 14:19:50 -0700, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > I don't see why the current ICU 4.0.1 needed to be updated, > > what "issues with headers" are you referring? > > I am not sure exactly when the ICU license changed but > the first ICU versions had a restrictive licen

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-07 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- On Wed, 9/7/11, Eike Rathke wrote: > > I don't see why the current ICU 4.0.1 needed to be updated, > what "issues with headers" are you referring? > >   Eike > I am not sure exactly when the ICU license changed but the first ICU versions had a restrictive license. We have some code from IC

[repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-07 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Pedro, On Wednesday, 2011-09-07 14:24:26 -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:46:17 +0200, Mathias Bauer > wrote: > >Am 07.09.2011 18:21, schrieb Pedro F. Giffuni: > >>The external sources include a lot of stuff that is > >>outdated and there may even be security risks involve