Lift ICU requirements
| From: | Christoph M. Becker | Date: | Mon, 03 Sep 2018 13:12:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Lift ICU requirements | ||
| Groups: | php.internals | ||
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Hi!
ext/intl presently requires ICU ≥ 4.0 (ICU 4.0 has been released on
2008-07-02[1]). Since ICU is still under vivid development our code is
full of version checks (grep for ICU_VERSION), very old ICU versions are
unlikely to be still around widespreadly, and we're generally not doing
us a favor in supporting such old ICU versions (many PHPTs have multiple
variants for different ICU versions). Therefore I have submitted PR
#3487[2] which would raise the requirements to ICU ≥ 4.6 (ICU 4.6 has
been released on 2010-12-02[3]).
Anatol suggested to consider to lift the requirements even to ICU ≥ 50
(ICU 50.1 has been released on 2012-11-05[4]), or maybe even to ICU ≥ 52
(ICU 52.1 has been released on 2013-10-09[5]).
What do you think? Does this require an RFC?
[1] <http://icu-project.org/download/4.0.html#ICU4C>
[2] <https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/3487>
[3] <http://site.icu-project.org/download/46#ICU4C-Download>
[4] <http://site.icu-project.org/download/50#TOC-ICU4C-Download>
[5] <http://site.icu-project.org/download/52#TOC-ICU4C-Download>
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Christoph M. Becker