Re: Lift ICU requirements
| From: | Remi Collet | Date: | Mon, 03 Sep 2018 13:55:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Lift ICU requirements | ||
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Le 03/09/2018 à 15:12, Christoph M. Becker a écrit :
> 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?
50.1 seems a good target (version in RHEL/CentOS 7)
> Does this require an RFC?
I don't think.
Remi
>
> [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}
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> [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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