[tlbuild] problems with solaris & ICU

[Khaled Hosny]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 01:05:11PM +0200, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
> 2013/3/13 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com>
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Just to let you know before you start scratching the head about
> > compilation issues on Sparc Solaris:
> >
> > (I didn't play with optimization yet.)
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> > > Am 12.03.2013 um 16:37 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
> > >>
> > >> while testing XeTeX on Solaris Sparc 9, I came across
> 
> 
> First Solaris 9 is very old and practically EOLed:
> 
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris10/overview/index-138972.html
> 
> Also, accoriding to
> 
> http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2013-March/024118.html
> 
> "Port OpenType layout from ICU LayoutEngine to HarfBuzz."
> 
> So it seems that ICU will not be needed.

ICU has more than the layout engine, we still use it for encoding
conversion, locale-sensitive line breaking and bidi. There are
replacements, but we will be trading one dependency by 3 or more.

Regards,
Khaled