No need for apology—I hugely appreciate the support on this, given the shrouded
process of getting those ZIP files updated! :D
Ross
From: on behalf of Brent Fulgham
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 3:16 PM
To: Ryosuke Niwa
Cc: "Kirsling, Ross" , "webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org"
Subject: Re:
Please note that Per Arne updated the Apple ZIP files to have the correctly
aligned ICU libraries, so the Windows bots should have what they need.
I apologize for taking so long to complete that.
Thanks,
-Brent
> On Apr 3, 2020, at 4:57 PM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at
>Also, sadly ICU does not maintain a stable API or ABI. So every
>application and library using ICU would need to be rebuilt and updated
>at the same time. Then the update would break any custom software that
>users have using the system ICU. Such an update would go badly...
>probably would
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 2:48 pm, Michael Catanzaro
wrote:
Sometimes distros make exceptions (e.g. for WebKitGTK, which is
special due to very high number of CVEs), but ICU does not warrant an
exception. There are probably hundreds of applications using ICU in
distros, if not more. Who knows
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 7:08 pm, "Olmstead, Don"
wrote:
Hi Michael,
There are a couple problems with checking in a version of ICU.
* Other libraries used by WebKit have dependencies on ICU. For our
ports harfbuzz, libxml2, libxslt, libpsl and CFlite all require ICU.
You're right, it's a
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 11:49 am, Alexey Proskuryakov
wrote:
The license is not BSD or LGPL, so that's one aspect to consider.
Why exactly are distros unwilling to update ICU?
- Alexey
Distros would upgrade to newer minor releases of the library, but
updating system packages to new
Hi Michael,
There are a couple problems with checking in a version of ICU.
* Other libraries used by WebKit have dependencies on ICU. For our ports
harfbuzz, libxml2, libxslt, libpsl and CFlite all require ICU.
* ICU doesn't come with a CMake build system and its non-trivial to make one.
We've
Here’s my take:
The source code we check into the WebKit repository is there for the
convenience of the people *contributing* to WebKit, and is need not be the sole
input when building and packaging WebKit for distribution.
Including ICU sources in a GTK WebKit tarball would not necessarily
The license is not BSD or LGPL, so that's one aspect to consider.
Why exactly are distros unwilling to update ICU?
- Alexey
> 9 апр. 2020 г., в 10:32 AM, Michael Catanzaro
> написал(а):
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> Any objections to uploading a bundled ICU 60 under Source/ThirdParty?
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> Seems easier than
Any objections to uploading a bundled ICU 60 under Source/ThirdParty?
Seems easier than forcing downstreams to work out bundling themselves.
Most major distros will just stop providing WebKit security updates if
we don't bundle it for them. E.g. this is sure to kill Ubuntu's current
long
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