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Fw: icu4c
Hello;
FWIW, for those working on that wonderful ICU update, you may want to look at the old IBM's symphony code as it used ICU extensively and the code should be usable license-wise to AOO.
Cheers,
Pedro.
Re: Fw: icu4c
Posted by Matthias Seidel <ma...@hamburg.de>.
Hi Pedro,
Am 04.11.24 um 16:34 schrieb Pedro F. Giffuni:
> Hello;
> FWIW, for those working on that wonderful ICU update, you may want to look at the old IBM's symphony code as it used ICU extensively and the code should be usable license-wise to AOO.
Do you have a pointer to the code you are speaking of?
Regards,
Matthias
> Cheers,
> Pedro.
Re: icu4c
Posted by "Pedro F. Giffuni" <gi...@yahoo.com.INVALID>.
(Sorry that I am not subscribed to the list)
Yes, thanks for the link Dave! However, https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/symphony/trunk/main/icu
is just the tip of the update, one has to look at the other modules where ICU is used, update the code and test it, which is usely done best by people with an eastern background. It is a lot of work and the chinese IBM team never got to finish it, but a lot of the hard work is done already within the Symphony trunk already :).
Cheers,
Pedro.
On Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 07:35:23 PM GMT-5, Pedro F. Giffuni <gi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Ugh ... looking at the stale branches I can't find the code. :(
FWIW, it did happen that IBM donated the code for Symphony (their OOo fork) to the Apache Software Foundation and it was in a subversion branch, but it either was never moved to git, or it was automagically dropped due to inactivity.
In addition to improved ICU support, it also had an enhanced VBA implementation, otherwise I think most was already in AOO.
Sorry,
Pedro.
On Monday, November 4, 2024 at 10:34:41 AM GMT-5, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
Hello;
FWIW, for those working on that wonderful ICU update, you may want to look at the old IBM's symphony code as it used ICU extensively and the code should be usable license-wise to AOO.
Cheers,
Pedro.
Re: icu4c
Posted by Dave Fisher <wa...@apache.org>.
> On Nov 7, 2024, at 4:35 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni <gi...@yahoo.com.INVALID> wrote:
>
> Ugh ... looking at the stale branches I can't find the code. :(
> FWIW, it did happen that IBM donated the code for Symphony (their OOo fork) to the Apache Software Foundation and it was in a subversion branch, but it either was never moved to git, or it was automagically dropped due to inactivity.
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/symphony/trunk/main/icu/
Is this what you were looking for?
> In addition to improved ICU support, it also had an enhanced VBA implementation, otherwise I think most was already in AOO.
> Sorry,
> Pedro.
Best,
Dave
> On Monday, November 4, 2024 at 10:34:41 AM GMT-5, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
>
> Hello;
> FWIW, for those working on that wonderful ICU update, you may want to look at the old IBM's symphony code as it used ICU extensively and the code should be usable license-wise to AOO.
> Cheers,
> Pedro.
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Re: icu4c
Posted by "Pedro F. Giffuni" <gi...@yahoo.com.INVALID>.
Ugh ... looking at the stale branches I can't find the code. :(
FWIW, it did happen that IBM donated the code for Symphony (their OOo fork) to the Apache Software Foundation and it was in a subversion branch, but it either was never moved to git, or it was automagically dropped due to inactivity.
In addition to improved ICU support, it also had an enhanced VBA implementation, otherwise I think most was already in AOO.
Sorry,
Pedro.
On Monday, November 4, 2024 at 10:34:41 AM GMT-5, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
Hello;
FWIW, for those working on that wonderful ICU update, you may want to look at the old IBM's symphony code as it used ICU extensively and the code should be usable license-wise to AOO.
Cheers,
Pedro.