Summary: | de-bloat internal ICU | ||
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Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Björn Michaelsen <bjoern.michaelsen> |
Component: | Localization | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | medium | CC: | dtardon, erack, michael.meeks |
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | Other | ||
OS: | All | ||
Whiteboard: | EasyHack DifficultyBeginner SkillScript TopicCleanup | ||
i915 platform: | i915 features: |
Description
Björn Michaelsen
2011-06-30 09:21:05 UTC
ICU is compiled and unpacked by some dmake magic; hopefully the makefile.mk shows how patches can be applied in there. The code itself tends to be unpacked to eg. icu/unxlngi6.pro/misc/build/icu-* and as you re-run 'build ; deliver' in the top-level it can be re-unpacked over that so take care ;-) You can read more about customising ICU's data library to remove un-needed pieces here: http://userguide.icu-project.org/icudata see eg. "Reducing the Size of ICU's Data: Locale Data" "Reducing the Size of ICU's Data: Conversion Tables" etc. Hopefully there are some easy wins there from just reading the manual and creating some new patches to add to icu/makefile.mk to configure that lot out. Why having a bundled ICU at all ? Because it is not available by default on all platforms CC'ing Michael, who was the original mentor for this IIRC? Deteted "Easyhack" from summary @eike: is this still open? I vaguely remember you doing something in this area. There was someone working on it early this year or so, had some luck with stripping down a bit the data libraries, but never came up with the final patch (which would be just some makefile.mk hackery to pull a different tarball from ext_sources) nor a verification whether the stripped down data actually worked or not. Anyway, we'd have to redo things because in the mean time upgraded to ICU 49 and data packages have to be assembled individually for each version. 17:04 <@Sweetshark> erAck, mmeeks: is this still an easyhack: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38836 -- or should we better remove the whitespace keyword? from the last comment it seems not directly actionable to me .... 17:06 <@erAck> Sweetshark: close that, we can't remove anything anymore from ICU as external libs now depend on it. |
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