Re: NSCalendar and NSLocale support

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 15 Jun 2009, at 00:26, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:

> 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:

This link suggests that it ships with solaris 9 and 10 but not 8 or  
earlier  ...
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-233922-1http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do 
?assetkey=1-66-233922-1