Re: NSCalendar and NSLocale support

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am 14.06.2009 um 23:10 schrieb Riccardo Mottola:

> Hi,
>
> Dave MacLachlan wrote:
> > Hey there...
> >
> > I'm looking to add NSCalendar and NSLocale to Foundation. I'm  
> > happy to implement them, but I was hoping to do it on top of ICU  
> > (http://site.icu-project.org/).
> >
> > Are we willing to add a dependency on ICU to gnustep?
>
> This is a typical dilemma. Usually I am a friend of having the  
> smallest set of dependencies possible. I checked and ICU is for  
> example readily available in gentoo (if not, I would have really  
> worried) but it is not for example available on sunfreeware, this  
> tells me that it is not that widespread.

Really? SUN should use it:

from http://site.icu-project.org/:

Companies and Organizations using ICU
ABAS Software, Adobe, Apple, Amdocs, Apache Xalan XSLT, Apache Xerces  
XML, Argonne National Laboratory, Avaya, BAE Systems Geospatial  
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GroundWork Open Source, GTK+, HP, Hyperion, IBM, Inktomi, Innodata  
Isogen, Informatica, Intel, Interlogics, IONA, IXOS, Jikes,  
Mathworks, Mozilla, Netezza, OpenOffice, Lawson Software, Leica  
Geosystems GIS & Mapping LLC, Mandrake Linux, OCLC, Progress  
Software, Python, QNX, Rogue Wave, SAP, SIL, SPSS, Software AG, Sun  
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Trend Micro, Virage, webMethods, Wine, WMS Gaming, XyEnterprise,  
Yahoo!, and many others.

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Computing WECMS, Rational Business Developer and Rational Application  
Developer, SS&S Websphere Banking Solutions, Tivoli Presentation  
Services, Tivoli Identity Manager, WBI Adapter/ Connect/Modeler and  
Monitor/ Solution Technology Development/WBI-Financial TePI,  
Websphere Application Server/ Studio Workload Simulator/Transcoding  
Publisher, XML Parser.

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