El martes, 3 de junio de 2014 01:09:03 UTC-7, joc...@chromium.org escribió:
>
> +v8-users, v8-dev is mostly for codereviews and stuff...
>

OK, thanks.
 

> On Tuesday, June 3, 2014 12:45:44 AM UTC+2, Steven R. Loomis (IBM) wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> I would like to contribute some changes to support i18n use.
>> I work on ICU at IBM, and it's my understanding that there is a CCLA sent 
>> in already.
>>
>
> Yes, indeed!
>  
>
>>
>> For background, I am working on trying to get ICU on by default in Node. 
>> https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/7719
>>
>
> Cool!
>  
>
>>
>>
>> I've opened three bugs:
>>
>
> Thank you, I cc'd some folks and added comments to them
>
Thanks. We can continue the discussion on the specific bugs.  

>
>
>> * https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=3345 -  Make 
>> breakiterator optional. This detects whether break iteration is turned off 
>> in the ICU you are built against.
>>   Saves ~1MB of code (not counting data).
>>
>> * https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=3348 - bug fixes
>>  This does some error checking if ICU wasn't able to load its data.
>>   This isn't a complete fix, but turns crashers (SEGV) into "soft" errors 
>> (node exits with an error message). 
>>
>> And the more complicated one..
>> * https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=3344 - 
>> InitializeICUDirectory
>>   This just sets u_setDataDirectory() to tell ICU where to load its data, 
>> or if the param is null, it sets a "small" built in data pack, just 
>> en+root  and calls u_setCommonData()..
>>
>>  An alternate model could be to just have two new APIs:
>>   InitializeICUDirectory( path .. ) 
>>   InitializeICUData( void *data .. ) 
>> The existing function, InitializeICU( const char *file ) could be kept, 
>> no conflict there. Just document to call only one of the functions.
>>
>> * As to building ICU itself, I have some new gyp+bash code, which might 
>> be better gyp+python, but have not disturbed at all how v8 builds against 
>> chromium's ICU. 
>>
>>
> We're directly using chromium's ICU, however, it's possible to also use 
> the system's ICU library or your own version.
>

Right... I'd like some more flexibility in how ICU is built. But, I can do 
that by specifying a new .gyp file instead of the chromium one.  That may 
be an area the wiki could specify in some more detail (I'd be glad to 
suggest text)
 

> best
> -jochen
>
>
>  
>> Please let me know how best to proceed.
>> Regards,
>> Steven
>>
>>

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