On 05.10.2013, at 19:13, Brent Fulgham wrote: > The WinCairo port is as close to the AppleWin port as possible. It uses ICU > and I have no intention of changing that. > > The WinCE port is maintained by Patrick Gangsterer. I believe that this port > does not want to use ICU, preferring to use the limited subset of i18n > features provided by the operating system.
That's correct, but I think that changing the current API to ICU and implement some stub functions instead is a good idea. Can we put the source code of this "dummy-ICU" somewhere into the tree? See also the discussion about a reduced ICU at [1], but this would require a big copy of the ICU code in the tree, which I don't see as a good idea. > I have heard from a number of people, mainly using WebKit in resource > constrained environments, who prefer to omit ICU due to its relatively large > footprint. But many of their concerns about library size might be satisfied > by rebuilding ICU with settings that omit the large encoding database. This > makes sense if their use cases do not need these features. If you use WebKit e.g. as a simple english-only GUI without text-input there is no need for ICU, expect to compile the remaining code. So a "dummy-ICU" would be everything you need for this use-case and reduces the required resources > -Brent > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Oct 4, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschu...@adobe.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On Oct 5, 2013, at 7:37 AM, Darin Adler <da...@apple.com> wrote: >>> >>> Any thoughts on this? I am not sure what the status of the WinCE port is, >>> but I’d like to hear from the maintainers of that port on the port status >>> and their view on this strategy. >> >> Do you really mean WinCE or WinCairo? I thought that WinCE was discontinued >> a long time ago and already removed. Probably I was wrong. >> >> Greetings, >> Dirk -- Patrick [1] https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-June/025018.html _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
