Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:103115 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 82207 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2018 17:10:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mout.gmx.net) (212.227.17.22) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 3 Sep 2018 17:10:04 -0000 Received: from [192.168.2.133] ([91.8.166.159]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx102 [212.227.17.168]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MdEsh-1gEkuS405j-00IUMR for ; Mon, 03 Sep 2018 15:12:24 +0200 To: PHP internals Message-ID: <8bead512-6032-7cc0-156e-bf2425663cd3@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 15:12:24 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: de-DE Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:UdDFaZfiaYVA4XgRVANep/KK8r89VrflEpDfsEf9cn9S8VCEeFg pk3glMoUH48430EOlQVw4VquTMLw1tMGbo5R2/qlStlMgVfA72Xyp0LcMoZamcjdCmnJBn/ fDT4gSAqZOOhjLNKhVh9ruI7MJX8hT9spKMBEgLVDrFhGUUr3wDDLpGL472m3RNpY2vZlyb hcUYvzguEWFWdhd1qnvJA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:iyJN+KNXxvI=:b60BVzE5lq+hCDQVUE+vVp BnXhbgWR5VhZoi9hrM3I3BNZhDSBNAg4VdnwKSHLy41BQvQPBeOwdktCGj1koe//iueUyKX6A iSDlQx/QZAZIz8TjVQAzD/GrZW6/t9UHXEqUcIqzRA3euaQzmSIClM1crilvb/IQhX/5Z797v 2pHvZ+TpfLalj10J6icFJR1gBxufYaAbyRS2VuE46HOpc/h3gGZn4J3LHTogV4qr0ppioFzqM MxakytPUrndAhMqPyzB15HrqftySrR9+Xll0RkxqceWCs1o2Bkx8ngv36dyPQ3iQ2ftQOmESw YIgLb4bSNzbSgqeJakO5FyDzSySzhoZu0fj98yyFPPFxI9Y9E01BC1uL2neIJ5v9gZvgKrweQ gesMpUQE4S73UoVm3s9FSDtb17KlnT88yyM64Ih681xKLBRYY5tt2ke/t+vEL+zIz6TIVfiV8 MfCYxQmgNe7N7q71eUud6RcXnQax4aCBMIPeuFKtMWImUyOgGajfKYZ4RaCRK+fhtB5T0r1jn vLiZewdMOw1LTvpaGQf9dCse+mEgw+6TnOSJbyHUU5vA6Gx8TgSjkcHEFQ8FsfeZUo5BfbgU4 BfTVV7qbU7SVEWEYWRP2s+SCPlPlzpJk9vuEMZqBufrdu5lSw3hWn6tREgDZ7f9wVleT2dVsT 3gWEhg/12H81L3OlJu7o8xO1OsOqrnqgJTGbcGkADxAg3W6hxnrGwBQHejp36vXiOREWiu12g NVkyHUkd48IH1vD3TYQqhg+9ApfX8T3F3RRAnJDYcKRHIt3W00jf1ZfKvVF++7pwm8tKdiYut NSGbEtC Subject: Lift ICU requirements From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker") Hi! ext/intl presently requires ICU ≥ 4.0 (ICU 4.0 has been released on 2008-07-02[1]). Since ICU is still under vivid development our code is full of version checks (grep for ICU_VERSION), very old ICU versions are unlikely to be still around widespreadly, and we're generally not doing us a favor in supporting such old ICU versions (many PHPTs have multiple variants for different ICU versions). Therefore I have submitted PR #3487[2] which would raise the requirements to ICU ≥ 4.6 (ICU 4.6 has been released on 2010-12-02[3]). Anatol suggested to consider to lift the requirements even to ICU ≥ 50 (ICU 50.1 has been released on 2012-11-05[4]), or maybe even to ICU ≥ 52 (ICU 52.1 has been released on 2013-10-09[5]). What do you think? Does this require an RFC? [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] -- Christoph M. Becker